FG’s Solar Mini-grid Project Sparks New Businesses, Jobs In Kwara

At least 12 welding businesses, two pure water companies, four grain mills, four aluminium businesses, an ice-block production enterprise and a cold-room/ice-fish depot have emerged or expanded around the new electricity project in Oke-Oyi, the headquarters of Ilorin East local government area of Kwara State.
The federal government through the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) yesterday commissioned the 581kWp interconnected solar mini-grid project under the Rural Electrification Fund–Interconnected Mini-Grid Acceleration Scheme (REF-IMAS), in partnership with Nayo Tropical Technologies Limited, the German Cooperation and the European Union through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Interna...