The Lagos State Government has introduced plans to extend electricity provide to above 3,000 megawatts (MW) from the present stage 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 an extra 2,000MW by nationwide grid assets, impartial energy initiatives, power hubs, energy barges, power merchants and embedded era.
According to him, reaching the goal would require coordinated enhancements throughout the electricity worth chain, together with era, 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 targeted on making the Lagos Electricity Market totally purposeful, growing era, strengthening distribution capability, reinforcing transmission infrastructure, bettering networks and metering, strengthening gas-to-power preparations, and enhancing data know-how 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 also be working to determine clear contractual obligations, enhance coordination amongst electricity market operators and regulators, and create a commercially viable atmosphere able to attracting non-public funding.
The plan is meant to deal with 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 embrace Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and the Lagos Electricity Intelligence Platform.
Sanwo-Olu referred to as on traders, monetary establishments, power operators and growth companions to collaborate with the state in delivering the plan, noting that dependable electricity is crucial to industrial development, job creation, enterprise competitiveness and improved residing requirements.
He stated the main focus 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 accredited 14 electricity licences and permits masking 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 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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