Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Agency, REA, has officially launched the Africa Minigrids Program, AMP, to support access to clean energy by increasing the financial viability, and promoting scaled-up commercial investment, in renewable energy mini-grids.

It is a four-year project funded by the Global Environment Facility, GEF, and supported by the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, in Nigeria with a focus on cost-reduction levers and innovative business models.

The program is active in 21 African Countries and Nigeria is the first to commence implementation following the official launch at an inception workshop hosted in collaboration with representatives from the UNDP, GEF, Ministries of Power, Environment and Agriculture, and other key stakeholders in the rural development space.

The Africa Minigrids Program in Nigeria is designed as an enabler project of the REA’s Energising Agriculture Programme which aims to advance one of REA’s strategic priorities of focusing on the unserved and underserved to increase economic opportunities through agriculture and productive sectors in rural communities across the country.