REA adds 120 job opportunities to renewable energy space
The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) is set to boost the renewable energy space with additional 120 jobs.
Its Managing Director, Abba Aliyu disclosed this in Abuja during the “Official Launching of Next Gen RESCO Program : Empowering Future Leaders in Renewable Energy,”
He said: “We are here now starting going beyond the rhetoric, going beyond just talking and walking the talk. We are about to add 120 additional job opportunities into the space by this event that we are taking place. So we have started changing this narrative.”
The job creation is due to the agency’s efforts at localizing the manufacturing of renewable energy equipment.
Aliyu said already in terms of localization, through the deliberate policies of President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria now has a 600-megawatt PV panels manufacturing capacity.
He recalled that the capacity was just 110 prior to Tinubu’s administration.
He stressed: “Before Mr. President’s assumption of power, the total capacity of manufacturing in the country was just 110.
“But to date, we have 600-megawatt of PV panels manufacturing. We have LPV with 100-megawatt capacity in Lagos that is now fully functional, operational.”
