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| Nigeria now has an online platform to control its power grid. The Nigeria Sustainable Energy for All Grid Platform (SE4ALL) was recently launched by the Nigerian Federal Government. |
Currently, the SE4ALL web portal has primary data. This
includes satellite mapping of 350,000 towns and cities. More than 3,000
agglomerations have also been remotely mapped and more than 2,600,000 buildings
identified. SE4ALL also has data on approximately 50,000 km of 33 kV
distribution lines; as well as 11 kV lines, which have been tracked across 21
states and the FCT (Federal Capital Territory).
More data is expected to be collected for the online
platform soon, given the number of developing electricity projects in the
country. The information collected will gradually be provided to the Nigerian
government, which aims to provide 30,000 MW of electricity to its people by
2030, of which at least 30% will come from renewable sources. Investors will
also use the data provided by the platform. “Data
on the power sector is vital for national development as a whole and for the
implementation of Nigeria’s electrification plan in particular,” says
Birgitt Ory, Germany’s ambassador to Nigeria. The online platform will also
remotely monitor the mini-grids across the country to virtually assess their
performance using the Application Programming Interface (API).
The European Union (EU) and Germany are supporting the
project to digitise the electricity sector in Nigeria. The initiative is part
of the Nigerian Energy Support Programme (NESP). This is a technical assistance
programme co-financed by the European Union and Germany. NESP is implemented by the
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the German
cooperation agency, in collaboration with the Nigerian Federal Ministry of
Energy.
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