The Lagos State Government has introduced plans to extend electrical energy provide to above 3,000 megawatts (MW) from the present stage of under 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), held on October 11, 2026.
The convention, themed “Securing Nigeria’s Energy Future: Policy Reform, Capital Mobilisation, and Pathways to a Sustainable Power and Energy Market,” came about 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 assets, impartial energy tasks, vitality hubs, energy barges, vitality merchants and embedded era.
Lagos Targets 3,000MW Power Supply
Sanwo-Olu stated reaching the goal would require coordinated enhancements throughout the electrical energy worth chain, together with era, transmission, distribution, gasoline provide and metering.
The assertion partly reads: “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.”
To obtain the goal, the governor outlined a seven-point motion plan centered on making the Lagos Electricity Market totally useful, rising era, strengthening distribution capability, reinforcing transmission infrastructure, enhancing 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 develop metering protection to scale back estimated billing and enhance electrical energy service supply.
- The authorities can also be working to ascertain clear contractual obligations, enhance coordination amongst electrical energy market operators and regulators, and create a commercially viable atmosphere able to attracting personal funding.
The plan is meant to handle challenges throughout the electrical energy worth chain whereas supporting a extra dependable energy provide for residents and companies.
Lagos Expands Solar and Power Infrastructure
The governor additionally emphasised the significance of dependable gasoline provide to energy vegetation and the deployment of digital techniques to enhance monitoring, accountability and transparency.
These techniques embody Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and the Lagos Electricity Intelligence Platform.
- Lagos has accomplished the solarisation of about 42,000 of the roughly 50,000 streetlights earmarked for the initiative.
- Solarisation tasks have additionally been accomplished in 175 public colleges, whereas work is ongoing at one other 100 colleges.
Sanwo-Olu referred to as on buyers, monetary establishments, vitality operators and improvement companions to collaborate with the state in delivering the plan, noting that dependable electrical energy is crucial to industrial progress, job creation, enterprise competitiveness and improved dwelling requirements.
He stated the main target was now on disciplined implementation and measurable outcomes to help a sustainable electrical energy market and strengthen Lagos’s financial progress.
What you must know
Nairametrics reported in May 2026 that the Lagos State Government had authorized 14 electrical energy licences and permits protecting off-grid era, embedded era, impartial distribution, metering companies and interconnected mini-grid operations.
The approvals have been issued by the Lagos State Electricity Regulatory Commission (LASERC) at its maiden stakeholder engagement.
The licensing train represents a regulatory step within the improvement of Lagos State’s intrastate electrical energy market framework, which is designed to develop private-sector participation and enhance electrical energy entry throughout industrial and residential clusters.
LASERC stated the train goals to construct a structured electrical energy market that pulls funding and improves energy reliability throughout Lagos.
