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UK off-grid solar company, Azuri Technologies has launched a PayGo solar home system in partnership with Nigeria’s Delta Power Holding (NDPHC) to provide solar energy to light at least 20,000 rural households living without electricity.
The NDPHC is a government-funded initiative formed to add new capacity to the country’s grid. Azuri’s recent partnership with the NDPHC emphasises crucial government input into seeking off-grid solutions, and its commitment to renewable energy technology development.
The Nigerian government has implemented an ambitious renewable energy policy that aims to increase energy production from clean energy sources up from 13 per cent in 2015 to 23 per cent in 2025 and 36 per cent in 2030.
Azuri will be distributing its residential solar systems that include four light bulbs for up to eight hours of lighting, a radio and USB port, across the country. Customers pay for the service via mobile money for 36 months after which the customer owns the unit outright.
The systems is expected to create 500 direct jobs and 5,000 indirect jobs. The solar company has carried out successful pilots within several communities in Abuja, Kwara and Osun states, installing nearly 200 solar home systems.
“Nigeria’s commitment to increasing its renewable energy mix marks an opportunity for a reliable solar alternative to address the challenges of energy access,” Azuri CEO Simon Bransfield-Garth said in a statement.
Following this launch, NDPHC plans to start a phased rollout in northern Nigeria, followed by a nationwide deployment, targeting the 70 million Nigerians living in off-grid communities with clean, sustainable and reliable solar home solutions.
“Let me state at this point that NDPHC is actively involved in the presidential initiative on rural solar home lighting systems where 20,000 units of solar home systems in under-served rural areas with no access to grid electricity supply is being implemented,” managing director of NDPHC, Chiedu Ugbo said.