Minister of Power Adebayo Adelabu made this known after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu on Monday in Abuja. According to him, the President directed that repair works be sped up to restore power to the northern part of Nigeria.

The north has been thrown into a blackout for days following the vandalism of some transmission lines, raising concerns among stakeholders in the region and beyond.

Adelabu said, “The world is moving. This is the 21st century and we believe that the most effective way of supplying uninterrupted, functional, stable, and reliable electricity to the northern part of Nigeria is through a distributed power model whereby each of the northern states will have an embedded utility solar scale source. All the 20 states will be insulated and immune from each other.

“We have made progress in this as we have interested contractors and financials that are ready to install 100 megawatts each for each of the 20 northern states which scalable to 50 megawatts at first and then upgraded to 100 megawatts.

“We are working on establishing a super grid which is a backup of an optional grid. If the national grid has a problem, there will be an alternative grid through which power can be transmitted.

“The world has moved beyond having a central grid; grids must be regionalized – we must have state grids so that each of the regionalized grids can be insulated from each other so that a problem in a particular line will not affect the others. That is what we are working on. Until that is done, we believe that we will keep managing what we have and reduce the frequent occurrence of grid disturbance.”

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