West Africa

ECOWAS has set a 48 percent renewable energy target for 2030 as over 190 million West Africans remain without electricity access, a regional parliament meeting in Dakar heard.

Liberia’s electricity regulator and the University of Liberia have signed an agreement to build the country’s first energy auditing curriculum for the sector.

ECOWAS Parliament has opened a five-day meeting in Dakar to develop strategies for expanding renewable energy and rural electrification across West Africa.

President Tinubu praised the REA as Nigeria inaugurated its largest solar hybrid mini-grid projects in North-Central, providing clean power to over 5,000 households.

Nigeria’s transmission grid can handle far more electricity than it has ever received, the TCN chief executive told lawmakers in Lagos this week.

Nigeria has 53 large-scale solar projects worth $11 billion currently underway as the country targets 209,000 megawatts of solar capacity by 2050.

Gambia’s main opposition party has declared the country’s electricity crisis a national emergency, saying millions of dalasis are being lost daily as outages worsen.

Nigeria has launched national guidelines for integrating solar mini-grids into its power grid, backed by Germany and the EU under the NESP program.

Lagos-based Kore Solar has been named Nigeria’s outstanding solar energy solutions firm by the National Association of Polytechnic Students at a Lagos ceremony.

A Gambian civil society group has given the government and NAWEC until June 19 to fix the country’s worsening power crisis or face mass protests.