Cloud Energy Unveils Namu’s Solar Mini Grid in Plateau State

Cloud Energy Photoelectric Limited, in furtherance of the strategic partnership with the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), has unveiled another 50 KWhz solar mini grid plant in Namu community in Plateau State.

The 50 kilowatt solar-mini-grid restored light to Namu community in Qua’an Pan LGA of the state, after 20 years without power. The immediate impact is the return of Namu to economic growth, as businesses returned to productivity to improve the local economies and jobs creation.

The Managing Director of Cloud Energy, Theophilus Nweke, in his address explained that his company committed financial and human resources to make the 50 kilowatt solar mini-grid a reality because of the urgent need to unlock the rich potentials of the rural Namu community.

He revealed that the Namu community had been a home to fifty rice mills, all to be powered by the solar- mini-grid plant.

Nweke observed that there was an urgent need to scale up the Namu solar mini-grid to two megawatts in order to enable it play a more significant role in the industrial development of the Qua’an Pan rural communities and Plateau State at large. Managing Director, Rural Electrification Agency, Abubakar Abba Aliyu explained that the African mini-grid programme remained a flagship initiative designed to support access to clean energy and promoting large scale investment in renewable energy in Africa.

He further explained that the project was not just a power installation, but a symbol of transformation that would light up homes, power businesses and create new opportunities for people and farms in the community.