Your Excellency Mr. President, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of my colleague, the Honourable Minister of State for Works and Housing, Engineer Abubakar D. Aliyu, the serving and previous Permanent Secretaries, serving and previous directors and members of staff of the Ministry of Works and Housing, I am delighted to welcome you to this commissioning ceremony.

This project was approved by the Federal Executive Council on the 20th March 2019 at the time when the Ministry of Power was part of Works and Housing. I express our Ministry's appreciation to members of the Federal Executive Council who voted to entrust our Ministry with this project.
What we have delivered, based on the mandate of the Federal Executive Council, is a 1.52 MegaWatts Solar System that will provide uninterrupted power supply to 5 blocks housing the Ministry of Works and Housing and Ministry of Environment and Lands.

This project employed 382 artisans and 176 skilled workers throughout its duration, in fulfilment of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) of creating jobs.

It would see to the reduction of average diesel consumption from 764,248 litres per annum to 166,825 litres per annum and cost saving of NGN270,945,000 over 20 years and contribute towards the reduction of government operational expenses and reduction of recurrent expenditure.

It has led to the upgrade and retrofitting of our electrical appliances by replacing 400 old Air-conditioning units with 400 new inverter-based energy efficient Air-conditioning units and replacing 2600 old light fittings with energy efficient LED ones all of which are energy saving because they consume 40% less energy.

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Our contract engages 5 (Five) STEM candidates to work throughout the solar PV lifecycle of this project in the following roles:
a. Two (2) candidates got trained in engineering design;
b. Two (2) candidates got trained in project construction;
c. One candidate got trained in engineering project management.

With this investment we have built our own Mini-Grid, in consonance with our Administration’s policy to promote off grid option, thereby making more of the on-grid power available to ordinary Nigerians who cannot afford the cost of investing in off-grid power.
To our contractor, I express deep appreciation for the efficient execution and more importantly for the sacrifice to complete this project in spite of the wide disparity between the foreign exchange rates in 2019 when the project was awarded and now, notwithstanding high importation costs of the parts.

Permit me sir, to also acknowledge two young people who were part of this project at different stages from inception to completion.

Mrs. Damilola Ogunbiyi and Engr. Femi Akinyelure, whom your Excellency appointed to the Rural Electrification Agency both of whom, with their colleagues, were involved in the energy audit and design of this project.

They represent the positive impact of youth involvement in public service; and of course, I cannot forget Engr. Julius Olurinola, our Director of Engineering Services, whose role I liken to that of a midwife, supervising, monitoring and reporting the progress of this project from incubation to delivery.

All I need now say is that other government buildings can follow this path and our team will be most enthusiastic to provide the support, and share our experiences and lessons learned, working with the Ministry of Power.

Your Excellency Mr. President, I have the pleasure to now invite you sir, to perform the official commissioning of the 1.52 MegaWatts Solar Power project to provide uninterrupted power to your staff in the Ministry of Works and Housing and Environment to improve their working conditions.

Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN
Honourable Minister of Works and Housing

Putting the issue of regular power supply to rest

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This thing go cost die ooo

With the rate at which Mabushi has constant light, how are you guys still able to rack up that much diesel cost? Also, having built a solar mini grid, how are you able to rack up another diesel cost again or I am not understanding. Isn't the idea of solar mini grid not supposed to cancel out the idea of using diesel entirely?

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Yeyeman. See im face. Anytime i see his face i remember what he said. "steady power supply in Nigeria is not rocket science. "

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How does it benefit the citizens

Buhari should just resign.. Nonsense

This is a good initiative.
I hope this will be maintained and sustained.

Other parastatals can follow suit.

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Nigeria will be great again in our lifetime, whether the evil and wicked ones like it or not.

OBJ, where is the power after 16 BILLION DOLLARS of looted funds.

Criminals supported by broke losers.

Useless fg

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While in the subject of power supply. This was idea would change the landscape and force the discos to push themselves to supply power in order to survive. What is it?

Put Power into the hands of consumers. How?

Mass metering. Not just mass metering, but allowing anyone to get their meters through a third party without needing to pass through the discos (they will still need to register with the discos after purchase of meters). This will be like phones today.

Imagine that Nigerians were only allowed to purchase mobile phones through a say Ntel or through only the network providers. We would never get to this level of mobile phone service delivery. Why? Because the network providers would be making their profits whether the service is stable or not. After all, its them that supply their phones, it then that bill or estimate the billing irrespective of whether people see a stable network connections for data or calls.

Let's do same with meter. Make legislation that allows people (third party) to import or manufacture electricity meters or smart meters so that the market will be flooded with prepared or smart meters. If everyone has meters, this will force the discos to make the necessary investment to supply electricity (they will not be rejecting power anymore). The discos will see their profit dry if they are not doing well.

Cost saving projection for diesel for 20 years?

That means for the next 20 years electricity problem wll not be fixed

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they dont deserve it what have they done to make the lives of Nigerians better via infrastructure useless ministry

matrixme:
With the rate at which Mabushi has constant light, how are you guys still able to rack up that much diesel cost? Also, having built a solar mini grid, how are you able to rack up another diesel cost again or I am not understanding. Isn't the idea of solar mini grid not supposed to cancel out the idea of using diesel entirely?

It cannot cancel out entirely, because solar power is stochastic. During the rainy seasons of April through September, you have almost no Power.

So, the only way to make it Renewable 100% is to hybridise with other RES or you at best manage with Diesel/Grid Power.

Its techno-economic advantage is embedded in a better CoE, and reduced GHG emission.


This isn't just a good achievement, it is a fantastic one. That Ogunbiyi woman is shattering the ceiling.

to be honest,Bubu is working but the soaring goods price and iPOB,ESN BOKO HARAM , BANDITS wahala

matrixme:
With the rate at which Mabushi has constant light, how are you guys still able to rack up that much diesel cost? Also, having built a solar mini grid, how are you able to rack up another diesel cost again or I am not understanding. Isn't the idea of solar mini grid not supposed to cancel out the idea of using diesel entirely?

Because sometimes, the battery and backups will run out of energy and there may not be enough sun to charge back, so the gas engine can take over

Pictures of the plant or I don't believe

If dem scrape off the buying of diesel...aw dem wan take pad budget nau.

matrixme:
With the rate at which Mabushi has constant light, how are you guys still able to rack up that much diesel cost? Also, having built a solar mini grid, how are you able to rack up another diesel cost again or I am not understanding. Isn't the idea of solar mini grid not supposed to cancel out the idea of using diesel entirely?