The Southern Governors’ Forum, the umbrella body for 17 governors from the three geo-political zones of South-West, South-East and South-South has planned to generate 90,000 megawatts of electricity to cater for the power needs of 90 million residents of the region.

The forum said it is embarking on this project using the rule of thumb of 1,000 megawatts per 1 million population to arrive at its 90,000 megawatts target.

The member states have therefore been encouraged to take advantage of the recent constitutional amendment that now allows states to regulate, generate, transmit and distribute electricity whilst also considering renewable sources of energy to bring the dream to reality.