FAAN, NAMA and Power Conundrum Chinedu Eze The two major service providers in the aviation industry, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) spend over N34 billion on Chinedu Eze The two major service providers in the aviation industry, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) spend over N34 billion on power from grid electricity annually.
Recent review from the Ministry of Aviation indicated that this is in addition to other sources of power, from power generators to renewable energy.
Two years ago, the ministry said Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) alone, consumes N1 billion worth of electricity monthly and additional high costs were incurred across other major travel hubs, with energy bills for Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja also surpassing N1 billion annually.
To reduce the cost, FAAN has been working to restructure its aviation master plan to actively transition major international airports to solar energy.
The agency has also suffered heavily from running high-capacity diesel generators overnight during non-peak hours, when no active flights are scheduled, at a very huge cost. In fact, reports showed that recent capital investments by FAAN on alternative power include a N8.73 billion allocation explicitly dedicated to modernizing airport power infrastructure to optimise grid utilisation and systematically eliminate reliance on diesel fuel. In the same vein, NAMA spends over N10 billion annually on power. Until recently it was using generators to power off grid installation located in different parts of the country.
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