This was stated by the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, in Osogbo, Osun State capital during his visit to the National Control Centre (NCC) of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Friday.
The President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government has said it is working towards generating 20,000 megawatts by 2026 and 60,000 megawatts of electricity by 2060.
This was stated by the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, in Osogbo, Osun State capital during his visit to the National Control Centre (NCC) of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Friday.
The minister revealed the short and long term plans of the ministry towards increasing power generation, transmission and distribution in Nigeria.
He was quoted by Channels TV as saying: “Like I told you, it’s an aspiration for Nigeria to have minimum of 60,000 megawatts of power by 2060; that is 60 gigawatts. And 2030 is the medium term objective of achieving 30,000 megawatts of power.
“But like I mentioned in one of the programmes I attended, in as much as we are on course in achieving this, given the experiences of other countries who are even able to achieve over 100,000 megawatts within 40 to 50 years, this is not an ambitious target for Nigeria, we can easily achieve it.
“We have target for transmission capacity, we have target for distribution capacity and we have target for power generation capacity. By 2026, we should be able to achieve 20,000 megawatts of electricity,” Adelabu said.
He noted that two more electricity substations would be built in the coming months as part of the federal government's presidential power plan.
The Minister also cautioned that any employee discovered obstructing the government's efforts in the power sector would face the consequences.
He also informed that a panel had been formed to investigate what caused the recent fire at the TCN power substation in Birnin Kebbi.
The minister was accompanied on his visit to Oshogbo by ministry officials as well as TCN top management.
It was Adelabu's first visit to the facility since his appointment as minister.