The Lagos State Government has introduced plans to extend electricity provide to above 3,000 megawatts (MW) from the present degree of beneath 1,000MW by March 2027.
According to a press release on the state authorities’s official X account, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu disclosed this on the fourth Lagos Business School Africa Energy Conference (AEC 2026).
The convention, themed “Securing Nigeria’s Energy Future: Policy Reform, Capital Mobilisation, and Pathways to a Sustainable Power and Energy Market,” befell on the Honeywell Auditorium, Lagos Business School, alongside the Lekki-Epe Expressway in Lagos.
Sanwo-Olu, who was represented by his deputy, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, stated the state was working to mobilise a further 2,000MW by way of nationwide grid sources, unbiased energy tasks, power hubs, energy barges, power merchants and embedded technology.
According to him, reaching the goal would require coordinated enhancements throughout the electricity worth chain, together with technology, transmission, distribution, gasoline provide and metering.
“As part of efforts to end blackouts and build a 24-hour power economy in the state, the Lagos State Government has announced plans to increase electricity supply to the state to above 3,000 megawatts from the current level of below 1,000 megawatts by March 2027,” the assertion stated.
To obtain the goal, the governor outlined a seven-point motion plan centered on making the Lagos Electricity Market totally practical, rising technology, strengthening distribution capability, reinforcing transmission infrastructure, bettering networks and metering, strengthening gas-to-power preparations, and enhancing data expertise and market visibility.
The state is working to strengthen its transmission community, improve substations and distribution feeders, and broaden metering protection to cut back estimated billing and enhance electricity service supply.
The authorities can be working to ascertain clear contractual obligations, enhance coordination amongst electricity market operators and regulators, and create a commercially viable surroundings able to attracting personal funding.
The plan is meant to handle challenges throughout the electricity worth chain whereas supporting a extra dependable energy provide for residents and companies.
The governor additionally emphasised the significance of dependable gasoline provide to energy vegetation and the deployment of digital methods to enhance monitoring, accountability and transparency.
These methods embody Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and the Lagos Electricity Intelligence Platform.
Sanwo-Olu referred to as on buyers, monetary establishments, power operators and growth companions to collaborate with the state in delivering the plan, noting that dependable electricity is important to industrial development, job creation, enterprise competitiveness and improved dwelling requirements.
He stated the main target was now on disciplined implementation and measurable outcomes to assist a sustainable electricity market and strengthen Lagos’s financial development.
In May 2026 the Lagos State Government had authorized 14 electricity licences and permits protecting off-grid technology, embedded technology, unbiased distribution, metering companies and interconnected mini-grid operations.
The approvals had been issued by the Lagos State Electricity Regulatory Commission (LASERC) at its maiden stakeholder engagement.
The licensing train represents a regulatory step within the growth of Lagos State’s intrastate electricity market framework, which is designed to broaden private-sector participation and enhance electricity entry throughout industrial and residential clusters.
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