Mainstream Energy Solutions Limited (MESL), in a bid to advance the Nigerian energy landscape has signed an agreement with Granville Energy (PTY) Limited to design, build, finance, and operate a 100MW floating solar power plant at the Kainji hydro power plant.

Speaking during the signing ceremony in Abuja on Tuesday, Sani Bello, Chairman, Board of Directors, Mainstream Energy Solutions, said that the project is a significant step forward in the company’s mission to transform Nigeria’s energy landscape.

He explained that when fully operational, the project would provide thousands of Nigerian homes and businesses with clean, reliable energy, supporting economic developmen while minimizing environmental impact.

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“We are proud to partner with Granville Energy (PTY) Limited, to design, build, finance, and operate a 100MW floating solar power plant at the Kainji hydro power plant. This pioneer project, embodies our unwavering commitment to increasing power generation in Nigeria while promoting sustainable and environmentally friendly solutions.

“As an organisation. we have consistently demonstrated our commitment to renewable energy, aligning this with our mission statement and the focus areas of our Corporate Social Responsibility interventions. This MOU signing is a testament of our resolve to drive positive change and contribute to Nigeria’s economic growth.

“This aligns perfectly with our core objective: powering Nigeria’s economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner,” he said.

Abba Aliyu, Managing Director, Renewable Electrification Agency (REA) noted that Nigeria currently has a highest number of people without electricity, with most of these people located in the rural and urban areas of the country.

For him, the most economically viable means of providing them this electricity is through distributed renewable energy, through the deployment of renewable sources.

“For us to have an opportunity where 100 megawatts of renewable energy can be injected into the grid, for us this is a huge and significant increase in the renewable mix of the country. I will say that apart from the Azura that was 450 megawatts that was added as a Greenfield, and Zungeru, which mainstream is very much active in managing that, there is not any significant renewable capacity that is added into the grid.

“Initially Rural Electrification Agency currently is working on injecting about 188.4 megawatts through interconnected mini-grids, one of which we intend to be the first that will do the floating solar in the University of Lagos, where we will put the panels by the side of the lagoon to power the University of Lagos.

“But definitely, the commitment of mainstream and the partners Granville Energy, is something that the federal government will always have pleasure and will always key into it”, he added.