Smart Micro-Grid: An Immediate Solution to Nigeria’s Power Sector Crisis

Smart-grid is the adoption of better control, monitoring and remote sensing in power systems while micro-grid is an advance approach to integrate energy resources in the power distribution system. These two technologies have developed over the years and have proven to be a reliable and secured approach in power system. In this paper, the potential utilization of smart micro-grid to solve the power supply challenge in Nigeria is explored. The used of wind and solar PV for electricity generation for 12 different cities in Nigeria is also analyzed. Nigeria’s renewable energy and fossil fuel potential are enormous but the country is faced with epileptic power supply challenge. Only 60% of Nigerians have access to electricity and most of these citizens (55%) reside in the urban areas. The paper presents the prospect of smart micro-grid as an immediate solution to the current challenges in Nigeria power sector.