SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC GENERATED ELECTRICITY IN NIGERIA TODAY AND IN THE NEAR-TIME

Abstract

The country is blessed with vast resources required to make her energy secured. However, despite these huge resources, electricity supplies to the populace is still epileptic. Factors responsible for this has continued to be gas supply shortages to thermal power plants, under-utilization of plants, transmission and distribution challenges. In a bid to provide electricity for needed use, individuals and corporations have had to depend on self-generation using internal combustion engine generators fueled with petroleum products. However, the exorbitant cost and pollution effects are forcing many to a rethink. Technological advancement in Solar photovoltaics has made it more affordable and coupled with the timespan of sunshine, it is now receiving immerse attention. Electricity generation capacity from Solar Photovoltaics installation in the country that exist in literature has been stated as a bulk value, however, this study has gone further to state the capacity of different installations and also stating the aggregate. The aggregate figures for undocumented generations tends to be appalling. The next 3-5 years is posed to witness a great leap in solar photovoltaic installations in the country. The projected generation capacity based on ongoing projects by the year 2030 has also been provided and it is expected that it will account for about 39% of the total, a very great leap from the present fraction of about 2%. Routing Solar Photovoltaics generated electricity through mini-grids or utilizing it in off-grid mode will put it in a better stead to solving the country power challenges.

Keywords

• capacity
• grid
• installations
• project
• solar pv