WorldStage Newsonline— As the nation’s demand for energy continues to grow daily, the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN) has predicted a growth of up to 100,000 megawatts electricity generation in the country by 2030.
ECN’s Director-General, Prof. Eli Bala who stated this in Abuja on Monday said the projection would be possible with an annual economic growth rate of 7 per cent and steady implementation of the national energy plan by the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing.
“With the incremental power programme; every time, every year, we must have increment in power generation.
“We will also increase our capacity to transmit as well as the capacity to distribute.
“So I think we are on course, although it is not easy.
“Very soon, we will get to a level where we will have a 100,000 megawatt or 100 gigawatt by 2030 and the economy growing at the rate of about 7 per cent annually,” he said.
Bala, who said the legal mandate of the commission is to produce strategic plans and coordinate national policies, stressed that “for you to have something, you must plan for it.
