{"id":12404,"date":"2020-11-03T09:21:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T08:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.propertypro.ng\/blog\/?p=12404"},"modified":"2020-11-03T09:21:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T08:21:46","slug":"federal-government-signs-grant-agreements-to-power-5-million-homes-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/federal-government-signs-grant-agreements-to-power-5-million-homes-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Government Signs Grant Agreements to Power 5 Million Homes in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><em>The Rural Electrification Agency,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0under the aegis of the federal government, has signed grant agreements with two mini-grid developers under the Mini-Grid Performance-Based Grant (PBG) to electrify 4 communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This disclosure was made by\u00a0<strong><em>Ahmad Salihijo<\/em><\/strong>, the current Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency, in a statement issued to the public via his official Twitter account.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6 ai-viewport-1 ai-viewport-2\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The statement partly reads:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c<em>This afternoon, two mini-grid developers were signed up under the Mini-Grid Performance-Based Grant (PBG), under the World Bank and African Development Bank, funded Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP)<\/em>.\u00a0<em>The plan is to continue to leverage these renewable energy technologies to power communities, under the Nigeria Electrification Project Mini-Grid Component. Today, we signed on Nayo Tropical Technology Ltd and Darway Coast. Using the PBG, these two developers will electrify 4 communities<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">We kicked off a new week with the signing of grant agreements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This afternoon, two mini-grid developers were signed up under the Mini-Grid Performance Based Grant (PBG), under the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WorldBank?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WorldBank<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AfDB_Group?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AfDB_Group<\/a>\u00a0funded Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T5gCBw7CRd\">pic.twitter.com\/T5gCBw7CRd<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u2014 Ahmad Salihijo (@modisalihijo)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/modisalihijo\/status\/1323280321945702401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2020<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Nairametrics\" href=\"https:\/\/nairametrics.com\/2020\/11\/02\/fg-signs-grant-agreements-to-power-5-million-homes-in-2021\/\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Continue Reading<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rural Electrification Agency,\u00a0under the aegis of the federal government, has signed grant agreements with two mini-grid developers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":12405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,37,32],"tags":[114,408,1937,1385,4044],"class_list":["post-12404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-news","category-real-estate-news","tag-electricity","tag-federal-government-of-nigeria","tag-housing-policy-affordable-homes","tag-how-nigerians-can-own-homes","tag-pewer","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12406,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12404\/revisions\/12406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}