Nigeria’s Rural Electricity Agency is Alarmed 80 Million Nigerians Lack Access to Electricity
Speaking during the Huawei Day 2025 Nigeria, the managing director of Rea Malam Abba Aliyu, lamented that though “REA is expected to provide stable power to 17.5 million residents, 237,000 MSMEs and 3,030 state-owned hospitals” but this is a far cry from the target of providing electricity to rural folks spread across the country.
He however welcomes the efforts of private entrepreneurs like Huawei, who are keying into alternative energy sources that would, as time goes on, complement national efforts to stabilize power supply chains at affordable rates.
He observed that “as rural electricity expansion is critical and Huawei’s string inverter allows storage scaling with each battery pack having a built-in energy optimiser, which achieves 24/7 real-time active balancing, making smart monitoring essential”.
He further noted that “Huawei’s Smart PV Management System enables string-level PV monitoring and cell-level battery management, which reduces on-site maintenance by 50% and improves fault diagnosis speed by 80%,” he added.
On his part, the Managing Director of Ventura, Engr. Obinna Agwu, a partner at Huawei Day, said: “Together, we are lighting up a greener Nigeria with rural solar projects, including the Ebonyi rural solar project which uses Huawei SUN2000-100KTL inverters and LUNA2000-200kWh smart string energy storage systems (ESS). This site operates flawlessly with very high electricity availability.”
He added that the key advantages of using Huawei solutions include all-in-one modular design, future-proofed scalability, simplified operation and significantly reduced costs.
Head of Huawei Digital Power Nigeria, Mr. Cruise Ni, stated that the company will continue collaborating with partners to advance Nigeria’s energy transition, bringing stable, green, and sustainable power to more rural communities.