By John Ikani
Nigeria, the largest economy in sub-saharan Africa with over 200 million people, has a fully liberalized power sector but struggles to supply only an estimated 4,000 MW of electricity.
The trend has largely contributed to rising poverty, insecurity, poor productivity among other worsening development indices, despite the nation’s potential to generate over 12,522 MW from its existing gas, hydro and solar plants.
This is why PwC Nigeria has announced plans to host the 13th edition of its Annual Power and Utilities Roundtable with a focus on addressing the plague of poor and irregular power supply bedeviling Nigeria.
PwC says it’s Annual Power and Utilities Roundtable is part of the company’s contribution to the on-going reforms in the Nigerian power sector.
It is a forum for key players to discuss the present and the future of a fully privatised Nigerian power sector.
This year’s roundtable is scheduled to be held at Four Points by Sheraton hotel, Lagos, on December 8, 2022 with the theme: Setting A New Power Agenda: Post 2023 Elections.
It is expected to bring an array of speakers and panellists including policy makers, operators, regulators and financiers in the power sector to discuss current drawbacks and limitations to achieving constant power supply.
The event will be moderated by PwC Nigeria Partner, Akinyemi Akingbade while the Keynote Speaker is Dr. Sam Amadi, former CEO of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission.
Among the panelists are Mr. Alex Okoh, Director General Bureau of Public Enterprise; Dr U.G Mohammed, Former MD Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN); Mr Edu Okeke, MD Azura Power West Africa Limited and Ms. Lande Abudu, Component Lead, Standalone Solar Home Systems.
Their insights as well as the input of the other stakeholders will form the basis of an annual report issued by PwC providing a guide to unlocking the potential in the sector.
