Huawei introduces technology to provide stable electricity in Nigeria

Huawei has launched its Next-Generation Mini Grid “iPowerCube-S” solution to provide reliable, green, affordable power supply for people’s livelihoods and production in areas without main power connection or unstable power supply. This iPowerCube-S is a distributed power solution that integrates solar, grid, diesel generator and battery storage. It features one-stop delivery, fast deployment, and optimal LCOE (Levelized Cost of Electricity).

The launch conference, which held in Abuja, Nigeria at the Huawei office, on the 21st of April, 2021 was witnessed on-site by the representative of the Managing Director of Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Engr. Ahmad Salihijo, in person of the Executive Director, Rural Electrification Fund (REF), Dr. Sanusi Ohiare, the MD/CEO, Green Village Electricity (GVE) Projects Limited, Engr Ifeanyi Orajaka, the Chief Growth Officer, Havenhill Synergy Limited, Mr. Oluwatobi Soyombo, and the Huawei Nigeria Enterprise Business Managing Director, Mr. Michael Zhuang. Online attendees included the CEO, Solar Centric Technologies Limited, Adetunji Iromini and many solar developers and End-users.

At the launch, Havenhill Synergy Limited, one of Nigeria’s Top solar developers, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Huawei Technologies Company Nigeria Limited for the Huawei Mini-grid Solution to be adopted in its Phase 1 mini-grid project covering 22 sites to provide reliable power supply for more than 70,000 people in remote areas and improve the living conditions of the locals.

Speaking at the launch, Mr. Michael Zhuang, Huawei Nigeria Enterprise Business Managing Director, stated that “Huawei has continuously supported Nigeria to improve the electricity access rate for remote area and reduce the electricity cost for commercial & Industry customers in Nigeria. In 2015, Huawei donated Nigeria’s first Mini Grid power station to the Ministry of Electricity, which is still providing stable electricity to local residents in Shimankar community of Plateau State.”

He added that “Huawei partnered with Green Village Electricity (GVE) Projects Limited, one of Nigeria’s top developers, to build a 234KW Mini Grid Power station to provide reliable electricity to 1,972 Households, 273 Commercial Users, 5 Productive Users and 19 Public Users in the community to improve the socio-economic life of the community.”

Engr. Ifeanyi acknowledged that high level investment in Research & Development and innovation is the bedrock of Huawei’s success story so far. He went on to inform the audience that GVE in partnership with Huawei installed the single largest minigrid plant presently in Nigeria at Shimankar village in Plateau state with a total capacity of 334kW. He stated that “before the commencement of this project, GVE called for solutions from major OEMS with key emphasis on solutions that meets the following requirements – Scalabilty, modularity in design and fast deployment. After much review the Huawei solution fulfilled all these requirements.”

“GVE is quite satisfied with the performance of the Huawei PowerCube 5000 system deployed at Shimankar village and are quite willing to enagage with Huawei for other upcoming projects. We call for more collaboration with Huawei in the area of capacity development for their teeming Engineers and technicians. Once again we congratulate Hauwei for the successful launch of this next generation mini-grid solution.” Engr. Ifeanyi added.

Huawei has continued to increase its research and development in off-grid scenarios to continuously improve product reliability and reduce LCOE (Levelized cost of electricity) of Mini-grid solution in Nigeria. It is believed that this effort will support Nigeria to increase its electricity access rate and reduce the electricity cost for residents and Commercial & Industrial (C&I) customers in Nigeria. Huawei String Inverter has the leading market share in the last six consecutive years, with a total shipment of 130 GW.