The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) has built a solar-powered mini grid to host one of the biggest fish farms in Nigeria in the 156-hectare Eriwe Farm Village in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.
Officials of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) having conversation at the project site
Ahmad, a renewable energy advocate, said the one-per geopolitical zone project would reduce cost and reliance on fuel to power pumping machines by the fish farmers, especially now that fuel subsidy had been removed.
“What we have seen here is a 100-kilowatt system, powering the agricultural setting under the Ijebu Community Development Programme for Poverty Alleviation.”
The REA MD further said the project would be powering 10 percent of the farm, but that “there is a plan for expansion of the project based on the demands we get.”
Source: Dailytrust
