On a visit to Africa’s biggest economy, RMI’s Jon Creyts finds rising demand for solar solutions
The king was grilling me. King Oba Ademola J.E. Ogunbona of Mokoloki was frustrated that his town’s solar minigrid could no longer sustain power through the night.
That day, the king wasn’t the only advocate for reliable power we encountered. For example, one local shop owner explained that she started off with one icebox in her store to sell ice, sodas, water, and other chilled offerings. With steadier power, she was able to multiply that first fridge into five. But with power no longer lasting through the night, she risks losing produce and goods to spoilage.
Drawing on this experience, and with support via RMI’s Sharing the Power project, we’re helping Mokoloki to expand its minigrid and power the town’s growing appetite for clean energy.This is just one story from my inspiring trip to Nigeria. With 218 million people, Nigeria is both Africa’s most populous nation and the continent’s biggest economy — so a natural hotspot for innovation in scaling clean, affordable energy.
Rather we see capacity building is a critical way to scale this growth. At the same time, we have learned that in the past, much of the investment in global capacity building has failed to produce results, especially when the community is not at the center of the design process. Ifeanyi Orajaka , CEO of renewable energy developer Green Village Electricity Projects Ltd. who partnered with RMI to build the solar minigrid at Abuja’s Wuse Market, talks about the project with RMI’s chief executive Jon Creyts and Raul Alfaro-Pelico, senior director of RMI’s Africa Energy Program and the Energy Transition Academy.Back on the ground in Nigeria, one of the most inspirational moments of my trip was when Suleiman took us to a huge market in the center of Abuja.
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