Nigeria's energy system at a glance
Power plants in this atlas by technology
Sum of nameplate capacity of mapped grid-scale plants (MW). Nameplate ≠ available capacity: grid output has peaked at about 5.8 GW.
Largest mapped power plants
Refining capacity
Barrels per day of crude distillation capacity. State-owned refineries have operated intermittently.
Key policy context
- Electricity Act 2023 lets states license and regulate their own electricity markets; NERC has been transferring oversight state by state.
- Energy Transition Plan sets a net-zero target for 2060, with gas as a transition fuel.
- Petroleum Industry Act 2021 created NUPRC (upstream) and NMDPRA (mid/downstream) and commercialised NNPC Ltd.
- Decade of Gas and the AKK pipeline aim to extend gas to the north for power and industry.
- Off-grid push: the Rural Electrification Agency's Nigeria Electrification Project and DARES programme fund solar mini-grids and home systems.
Electricity generation, 2000–2025
Grid generation by source (TWh)
Source: Our World in Data (Ember & Energy Institute). 2025 hydro jumps with Zungeru's full operation. Coal, oil, wind and nuclear are zero in this series.
Share of generation (%)
Derived from the series on the left. Gas has supplied 61–83% of grid electricity every year since 2000.
Access & consumption
Access to electricity (% of population)
World Bank WDI. Rural figures are survey-based and vary year to year.
Electricity use per person (kWh/year)
World Bank WDI (EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC). Peaked at 177 kWh in 2016; 141 kWh in 2024.
Access to clean cooking (% of population)
World Bank WDI (EG.CFT.ACCS.ZS).
Renewable share of final energy (%)
World Bank WDI. High because traditional biomass (firewood, charcoal) dominates household energy — not a sign of modern renewables.
Losses
DisCo ATC&C losses vs regulatory target, Q1 2026 (%)
Aggregate technical, commercial & collection loss. Bar = actual; tick = MYTO target. Source: NERC 2026 Q1 report, Table 9.
Grid performance by quarter (NERC)
| Quarter | Avg available (MW) | Energy (GWh) | ATC&C loss | Collection eff. |
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MYTO ATC&C target: 20.54% (2025), 16.92% (2026). World Bank WDI lists transmission & distribution losses at ~14% (2016–2024), a modelled estimate far below NERC's measured ATC&C losses.
Grid watch
Live & near-live supply
Nigeria's system operator (NISO) publishes real-time grid output on its own dashboard, but it offers no public data feed, and its site terms do not permit automated copying. This atlas therefore links to the live sources rather than copying them, and keeps a verified history from NERC reports.
Latest NERC publications auto-updated daily
- Updates appear here once the data bots are running on the website.
New factsheets and reports are listed automatically; figures from them are checked by hand before entering the charts.
News radar — unverified auto-updated every 6 h
- Updates appear here once the data bots are running on the website.
Headlines mentioning a grid collapse or disturbance, collected automatically from the GDELT news index. Not verified — confirmed events are added to the timeline below.
National grid collapses per year
2010–2018: TCN System Operator records (via ICIR); 2019–2020: combined counts (ThisDay/TCN; no total/partial split); 2021 onward: NERC Annual Report 2025; 2026 is year to date. Sources disagree — hover a bar for notes. Cumulative: 206 collapses 2010–2019 (TCN data via ICIR); 222 to June 2022 (ThisDay).
Recorded events, 2022–2026
| Date | Type | Notes | Source |
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Energy security scorecard
Share of petrol supply imported, by month (%)
NMDPRA data via ThisDay. Nov 2024–Nov 2025: 12.96 bn litres imported vs 7.39 bn litres local (63.7% imported).
Water–Energy–Food (WEF) Nexus Index, 2023
Score 0–100 (higher = more secure). Rank among 165 scored countries. Source: wefnexusindex.org; method: Simpson et al. (2022) Frontiers in Water 4:825854.
Energy indices
| Index | Edition | Nigeria | Notes | Source |
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World Bank RISE — policy & regulation scores (0–100)
Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy, rise.esmap.org. Strong on access frameworks; weak on efficiency and non-power renewables.
Power sector projects & programmes
A register of federal, state, private and development-partner projects aimed at improving generation, transmission, distribution and off-grid supply. Every entry links to its source; status is as of the date shown.
Resource potential
National potential figures as commonly cited by the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN) and the Renewable Energy Master Plan, alongside proven fossil reserves reported by NUPRC. Treat renewable figures as planning-level estimates.
| Resource | Estimated potential / reserve | Where it is concentrated | Current use |
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State profiles
| State | Zone | Solar GHI* | Wind | DisCo | Regulator | Key energy resources & assets |
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*Indicative annual-mean global horizontal irradiance band, kWh/m²/day, from the national north–south gradient (≈3.5 on the coast to ≈7.0 in the far north). For site design use the Global Solar Atlas or NASA POWER.
Download the data
Licence: compiled data and text © 2026 Shagbaor Hycent Amool, CC BY 4.0; code MIT. Third-party data keep their own terms — see the README in the ZIP and Sources & method.
Asset data
| Name | Category | State | Capacity | Status | Notes | Lat | Lon |
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About this atlas
The Nigeria Energy Atlas brings Nigeria's renewable and fossil energy resources, the infrastructure built on them, and state-level potential into one open, map-based reference for students, researchers, planners and policy discussion. It sits alongside the Nigeria Forest Reserves, Water Resources and Market atlases.
Method
- Assets were compiled from public operator, government and news sources. Coordinates are approximate site locations (typically within a few kilometres) and markers for basins, programmes and provinces are symbolic.
- Capacities are nameplate figures. Available capacity is often much lower because of gas supply, transmission and maintenance constraints.
- Pipelines are schematic routes, not surveyed alignments.
- State solar bands are indicative, derived from the documented north–south irradiance gradient; wind classes are qualitative.
- Regulator status reflects NERC transfer orders reported up to August 2025; check NERC for the latest position.
- Boundaries: state outlines from geoBoundaries (Nigeria ADM1, 2022; source GRID3; CC BY 4.0), simplified for the web.
Key sources
Licence & reuse
You may reuse the atlas data with credit. The datasets compiled for this atlas (site list, state profiles, projects register, grid-collapse record and headline figures) and the text are released under CC BY 4.0; the code is MIT-licensed. Series from the World Bank, Our World in Data/Ember and geoBoundaries are CC BY 4.0 from those publishers. Figures quoted from NERC, NUPRC, TCN/NISO, NMDPRA, NOSDRA, index publishers and news reports are cited facts — follow the source links and check the publishers' terms before republishing their documents. Locations are approximate and the data are not for engineering or investment use.
Cite this atlas
Amool, S. H. (2026). Nigeria Energy Atlas: an interactive map and open dataset of Nigeria's energy resources, power infrastructure, grid reliability and energy security (Version 1.0) [Software and dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23307712
Archived on Zenodo with a DOI; the DOI above always resolves to the latest archived version. Live atlas: https://shagbaor.com/energy-atlas/
Spotted an error or have better data? Corrections are welcome — this atlas is updated as new information becomes available. Last updated: .