President Muhammadu Buhari has
announced plans to increase Nigeria’s on-grid power capacity to 30 GigaWatts by
2030 from the current level of about 5 GigaWatts adding that 30 per cent of the
capacity would be generated through renewable energy technologies.
This is even as he disclosed that
the 2017 capital budget would be a green budget that would reflect the
country’s efforts at realising Nigeria’s Nationally Determined Contributions
(NDCs) despite a drop in federal revenue.
He stated this at Africa Day in
Marrakech, Morocco on the sideline of COP22, organised by the African Union
(AU) in collaboration with Nigeria and Economic Community Of West African
States (ECOWAS), with the theme: “Moving from Commitment to Action with the
Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) and the Africa Renewable
Energy Initiative (AREI).”
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