Reliable and Affordable Electricity for Nigeria: Growing the Minigrid Market

The document argues that Nigeria is becoming a global hub for minigrid development and outlines four key recommendations to accelerate market growth: improving finance affordability, providing partial grants and operational subsidies, establishing a finance consortium to spread risk, and coordinating demand stimulation through development programs.

• To accelerate the growth of the minigrid market in Nigeria, the document recommends that investors and donor partners support the affordability and viability of finance, provide partial grants and operational subsidies that allow developers to retain ownership, create a finance consortium to distribute investment risk, and coordinate demand stimulation via agricultural and other development programs.
• Nigeria is currently emerging as a global center for minigrid development due to the testing of innovative models and a demonstrated strong business case.

APA

RMI (2018). Reliable and Affordable Electricity for Nigeria: Growing the Minigrid Market. https://rmi.org/resources/reliable-and-affordable-electricity-for-nigeria-growing-the-minigrid-market/

Chicago

RMI. Reliable and Affordable Electricity for Nigeria: Growing the Minigrid Market. 2018. https://rmi.org/resources/reliable-and-affordable-electricity-for-nigeria-growing-the-minigrid-market/.

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BibTeX

@techreport{rmi2018reliable, author = {{RMI}}, title = {{Reliable and Affordable Electricity for Nigeria: Growing the Minigrid Market}}, institution = {RMI}, year = {2018}, month = aug, url = {https://rmi.org/resources/reliable-and-affordable-electricity-for-nigeria-growing-the-minigrid-market/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }