The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Cartriona Laing, has said that unstable power supply is one of the major factors behind Nigeria’s under-development.
She disclosed this spoke in Kaduna when she joined representative of Governor Nasir El-Rufa’i, Balaraba Aliyu Inuwa and Chairman of Kaduna Electric, Yusuf Hamisu Abubakar, to perform the groundbreaking of a 2.5mw solar hybrid power generation plant.
The facility is to be created by KONEXA, an integrated electricity distribution platform, in partnership with Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company.
On the project, Vice President (Operations), KONEXA, Hajiya Hasana Aliyu, said her firm was committed to improving power supply.
She said: “KONEXA is focused on reducing aggregate technical, commercial and collection (ATC&C) losses, as well as extending energy access to new connections and introducing new systems and processes through technology.”
She disclosed that for their first project in Nigeria, “KONEXA has partnered with the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company to operate sub concession area and broader concession. Essentially, we have scaled down the business into a smaller network area which has given us the ability to painstakingly gather all the necessary data on the network and the end users to understand the needs, challenges and opportunities for better understanding of the regulatory environment.”
