20,000 Megawatts Targeted by 2026, Says Power Minister

The Nigerian government aims to achieve a power generation capacity of 20,000 megawatts by 2026 and 60,000 megawatts by 2060.

Adebayo Adelabu, the Minister of Power, said this on Friday during his visit to the National Control Centre (NCC) of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) in Osogbo, Osun State

In his address, Minister Adelabu outlined the ministry’s short and long-term plans to enhance power generation, transmission, and distribution in Nigeria.

“Like I told you, it’s an aspiration for Nigeria to have a 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 a target for transmission capacity, we have a target for distribution capacity and we have a target for power generation capacity. By 2026, we should be able to achieve 20,000 megawatts of electricity,” Adelabu said.

He further mentioned that two additional power substations will be established soon as part of the federal government’s presidential power initiative.

Also, Minister Adelabu warned of consequences for any government employee found undermining power sector efforts and shared the formation of a panel to investigate the recent fire incident at TCN’s substation in Birnin Kebbi.

This visit to Osrogbo marks Minister Adelabu’s first official facility inspection since assuming his ministerial role.