LAGOS, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria is developing an energy database that will show community locations and energy demand profiles, Yemi Osinbajo, the country's acting president said Tuesday.
At the inauguration of Nigerian Renewable Energy Round-table on Tuesday in Abuja, the nation's capital, the acting president said the government has vowed to render operators of electricity generating sets in rural areas "jobless" by meeting the energy demands of rural communities through sustainable renewal energy solution.
He told his audience that 20,000 more homes would be provided with solar electricity system in the first phase of the sustainable renewal energy solution project of the government.
The plan was to expand the Solar Home System program to one million households, and thereby creating a few more million jobs, Osinbajo added.
He disclosed that the government was also championing the use of mobile money for solar home system payments to provide access to lighting and electric power for small devices.
The acting president also revealed that the government would embark on a broader restructuring of the electricity sector and strive to achieving a more systematic development power market design especially for the renewable energy.
He stressed the need for a framework that would bring together all stakeholders toward ensuring that renewable energy becomes a real engine of growth for the Nigerian economy.
