Power ministry enter 1.52MW solar plant deal

Power ministry enter 1.52MW solar plant deal

The Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing yesterday entered into an agreement with a certain solar Company to  design and install a 1.52 megawatts solar plant with a battery storage capacity of 2.26 megawatt-hours.

The solar power plant will be mounted on carport and rooftop canopies and will generate 2.45 gigawatt-hours of energy annually, reducing the ministry’s energy dependence on non-renewable power source by 71 per cent and reducing carbon dioxide generation by 2,600 tonnes. They would also complete an electrical retrofit on four office buildings within the ministry’s headquarters for energy efficiency upgrades, adding that the retrofit would replace old electrical appliances and connections with energy efficient ones, reducing the complex’s consumption by 40 per cent.

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, was quoted as saying that the project would make the ministry the first of Federal Government’s office complexes to use renewable energy as its primary power source. “Once completed, the system will save millions of naira every year on a cleaner and more reliable power supply. This forms part of the Federal Government’s commitment to renewable energy and mini grid policy,”

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