The Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Abba Aliyu, has described solar energy as the most economically viable model of power.

This was made known by Aliyu while featuring on a Channels Television programme, The morning brief, on Monday, August 25, 2025.

Aliyu, who was answering questions on the most appropriate energy mix in the country, noted that they are discussing other models of power like wind, biomass and so on.

The REA boss, however, revealed that the federal government had to suspend action on biomass when they realized that the tariff was way above the allowable limit due to the processing costs involved.

Aliyu pointed out that they are holding discussions on wind power models as they just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Nigerian Wind Energy Council for small wind infrastructure that are economically viable as well as within allowable range.

Aliyu on the question of energy mix said, ‘’To the second question, the most economically viable model now is the solar that we have seen. There are others that we are still discussing, wind, biomass. We tried biomass, but when we saw the cost of moving the garbage from where they are being dumped to the processing zone and processing it, the tariff was way above the limit that we can allow.

“And that is why we are yet to incentivize that. But for the wind we are discussing, we just last week signed an MOU with the Nigerian Wind Energy Council for us to start looking at small wind infrastructure that are economically viable, that the tariff will be within the allowable range. If we get that, we will start deploying other means of generation.”