In a bid to improve the power supply situation in Nigeria, PSC Nigeria, manufacturers of solar equipment in the country said they have installed capacity of over 1,500KWp of solar PV Systems, while making efforts to increase capacity about 5,500 Kwp within the next 12 months.

The company also said it has introduced products that would provide unlimited and uninterrupted electric power supply with no additional charges after the initial purchase of the solar system. The Chief Executive Officer, PSC Industries Limited, Mr. Patrick Owelle, disclosed this during an interactive section with journalists, recently in Lagos.

According to him, Nigerians are faced with only two problems, which he attributed to the epileptic power generation and secondly, the inability to harness the solar resource provided freely in the country.

“It is extremely important that we begin to sensitise the public and pressure our government to begin to do things to deliver the masses from this perpetual darkness. What we are offering is virtually free of charge and it will be criminal not to pursue alternative electricity sources in Africa.”

Owelle stressed the need to address certain issues relating to alternative power in the country and urged Nigerians to stop looking at solar power with scepticism because it can actually serve the same purpose as conventional power.

“With solar generation, everything works without interruption and there is no stabilizer of any sort. Every gadget here in my office works without a blink including the air conditioners and they are all powered by solar,” he noted.

He argued that there was the need for increased awareness campaign on solar power, through which they will come to appreciate its benefits.

According to him, “Europeans spends about 800billion Euro to fund the desert project for solar in Morocco, Africa, which sells the power Europe. But in Nigeria, we are not doing anything with all the solar radiation. Our mission in PSC, is to create a situation whereby everybody has access to some form of electricity, at the cheapest possible rates.”

Beides, Owelle said, the cost of solar power has reduced significantly, as there are more producers, adding that his company is in the process of constructing a plant in Nigeria, where solar panels and other allied products will be manufactured.

Identifying some of the economic benefits of using solar power, he said that consumers can determine how much power they want from as little as 10watts to as much as 50 to 60 megawatt or even a 100 megawatt with a life span of about 30 to 50 years.