Nigeria

Supporting efforts to connect the world’s largest unconnected population and support a transition to renewable energy

Joining up the dots

Connecting the world’s largest unelectrified population with renewable energy

GEAPP is scaling DRE and opening up the productive use of energy with a range of projects in Nigeria including: helping establish the cross-government Energy Transition Office; aggregating procurement needs of small developers; designing and implementing local currency platforms; and helping finance productive appliances such as freezers to help entrepreneurial businesses grow.

Solutions for Nigeria

Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE)

Accelerating the uptake of distributed renewable energy, to provide fast, clean, cheap power where it is needed most

Just Energy Transition

Ensuring the energy transition is just, equitable and inclusive by focusing positive impacts on women, youth and marginalised communities

Pilot Programmes

Design, test and later scale, transformative approaches including utility scale renewables, fossil fuel decommissioning, transmission and distribution, productive use of energy, green industrialization, and e-mobility

2030 Targets

50,000

Jobs enabled through GEAPP investments

2.5m

New connections reaching 12.5m people

10 GW

Renewable capacity for people and businesses

Alliance in Action

Partnering with the Nigerian government and SEforALL to scope and fund the cross-government Energy Transition Office, which leads a mixture of energy sector planning, enabling environment unlocks in policy and regulation and effective delivery and implementation

Sustainable Energy for All

Partnering with Chapel Hill Denham to design and implement local currency platforms to increase the supply of Naira-denominated debt and equity for off-grid energy developers

Chapel Hill Denham

Partnering with The World Bank to co-design the $750m DARES project, focused on results-based financing for renewable energy access, along with funding essential preparatory work through ESMAP

ESMAP, The World Bank

Partnering with RMI and the Rural Electrification Agency on the demand side, growing the productive use of mini grid renewable energy supply

RMI, Rural Electrification Agency

Partnering with All On with our aggregated procurement platform DART in partnership with Odyssey, which takes small developers’ procurement needs and aggregates them to bring effects of scale: better pricing, better terms, better lead times

All On Energy, Odyssey

Why GEAPP?

Nigeria’s Distributed Renewable Energy ecosystem needs these multi-faceted and simultaneous solutions so the whole value chain starts to connect, progress, scale and sustain with energy developer businesses becoming viable and self-sufficient, and offtake growing on the demand side as access to electricity drives growth.

In Nigeria, where MSMEs are the biggest source of both formal and informal jobs and therefore the engine of growth, that’s the breakthrough unlock that GEAPP brings.

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Establishing clean, sustainable, and reliable energy access is intertwined with so many of Nigeria’s development goals. We have proven that transforming our energy system is a national priority through our Economic Sustainability Plan, and most recently, with our announcement at COP26 in Glasgow to achieve net zero emissions by 2060. The Nigeria Integrated Energy Planning Tool offers critical data and analysis that will assist us in achieving our universal access targets for both electrification and clean cooking.

—H.E. Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN,

Former Vice President of Nigeria, GEAPP Global Advisor