{"id":203650,"date":"2025-07-31T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-national-grid-govt-targets-4200mw-from-renewable-with-battery-energy-storage-system\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T09:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:30:50","slug":"nigeria-national-grid-govt-targets-4200mw-from-renewable-with-battery-energy-storage-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-national-grid-govt-targets-4200mw-from-renewable-with-battery-energy-storage-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: National Grid &#8211; Govt Targets 4,200mw From Renewable With Battery Energy Storage System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Federal Government has initiated plans to deploy renewable energy battery storage systems to enhance the stability of the national electricity grid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The initiative aims to enable the integration of 4,200MWp of solar photovoltaic (PV) power into the national grid by 2030.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"65\">Speaking at the inaugural workshop on the Nigeria Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Feasibility Study, hosted by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) in collaboration with the African Development Bank Group and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507310100.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has initiated plans to deploy renewable energy battery storage systems to enhance the stability of the national electricity grid. The initiative aims to enable the integration of 4,200MWp of solar photovoltaic (PV) power into the national grid by 2030. Speaking at the inaugural workshop on the Nigeria Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[51989,258,256,8964,7424,4357,14458,6687,257,4687,393,11622,254,9407,7232,7317],"class_list":["post-203650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-4200mw","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battery","tag-energy","tag-govt","tag-grid","tag-national","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-renewable","tag-south-africa-today","tag-storage","tag-system","tag-targets"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}