📋 Tender Overview
Total budget: EUR 84.5MEUR (EU - EUR 67MEUR, counterpart – 17.5MEUR)
Implementation period: 7 years (2016 – 2026)
Implementing agencies: DFID (Solar Nigeria, 30.3M), GIZ (NESP, 35M)
Geographical region: Nigeria Energy Support Programme (NESP): Nationwide; Solar Nigeria: in Kano,
Kaduna and Adamawa
Project Managers: Godfrey OGBEMUDIA
Objectives:
? To enable and foster investments in a domestic market for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency;
? To improve access to electricity for disadvantaged (mostly rural) communities, and also in conflict-affected
areas.
Expected Results:
? A strengthened policy and regulatory framework which is conducive to the provision of reliable and
sustainable energy;
? Implementation mechanisms to provide access to RE and EE, CO2 emissions reductions and scaling up
sustainable business models in the sector;
? Reduction of barriers for market and business development in the sector by strengthening technical market
capacities and conducive frameworks;
? Improved reliability of health and education services in three northern states by providing off-grid access to
renewable energy to clinics and schools.
Main Activities:
? Building framework and pre-conditions in the RE/EE sector, to enable policy decisions, coherent
electrification planning and to foster investment;
? Improving access to electricity through RE and EE, scaling up sustainable business models;
? Strengthening technical market capacities and conducive frameworks;
? Improving reliability of health and education services in three northern states through renewable energy
solutions.
Main accomplishments to date:
? Solar Nigeria3 project implementation ended on the 31st of December 2020 with all 33 solar micro grids
installed across 3 states of northern Nigeria(Kano, Kaduna and Adamawa state);
? The Solar Nigeria programme installed a total of 2,238.72KW PV capacity across the three supported states.
In Adamawa State a total of 781.44KW PV capacity was installed, in Kano State a total of 665.28 KW PV
capacity was installed, and Kaduna State had a total of 792 PV capacity installed;
? As part of activities of the EU Climate Diplomacy Week 2022, the National Policy on Waste Battery
Management was launched on the 27th of October 2022 within the framework of the Nigerian Energy
Support Programme (NESP).
