Nigerian citizens that have solar powered inverter can help increase the alternative source of power that will stop epileptic power outages in Nigeria forever.

With Nigeria constantly experiencing power outages every day, there are vast majority of residents and commercials with gasoline (petrol) and diesel generators. These generators are becoming public nuisances to the environment, causing noise and air pollution.

Thankfully, the alternative source of renewable energy development is ongoing, with solar and hydro as their major priority. Also, the Buhari’s administration is taking a step on discouraging the sales and use of generators and replace them with inverters.

Unlike generators, inverters make no noise and use battery to generate electricity but the inverter batteries rely on public power supply and electricity from generators to charge. So therefore, inverters cannot totally replace generators. Now, there is a permanent solution for that which is the use of solar panels.

Solar energy technology has improved over the years. New improved designs produce higher efficiency, improved appearance, greater performance, and better return on the solar investment. Since the sun constantly baths us with photons of light and heat energy every day, it is our duty to harness its energy more efficiently.

Any homes, offices, factory and so on that uses inverters with batteries charged with solar panels installed on their rooftops, not only will no longer rely on generators anymore, it will greatly reduce their dependent on public power supply in Nigeria, which is not always constant. It will even add a greater benefit to homes, offices and so on. Their energy bills and energy consumption will largely reduced by feeding their excess electricity from solar panels to the national grid once their batteries are fully charged.  I hope the Nigerian governments are looking toward the great ambition.

Governments can manufacture, import or produce equipment required to connect individual’s solar panels to the grid, make policy agreements with various power providers like Ikeja Electric, and so on. Also, some sort of state community codes and requirements.

If all is well, the entire city of Lagos can become a giant power plant generating up to 700MW of power to other states in the country if every houses and office buildings in the city becomes grid-connected solar power systems. Epileptic power outages will be a thing of the past. Even, generators will be phased out completely.