Sustainable Energy Access Projects
Electricity, clean cooking and mobility — built local government by local government.
SEAP is a fifteen-year Nigerian energy infrastructure programme with a single objective: to lift households and local economies out of poverty through energy projects large enough to change them. It builds distribution franchises, clean cooking supply and electric mobility inside each of Nigeria's 774 Local Government Areas — anchored on executed agreements, and surveyed on the ground before a naira is committed.
Field surveys completed with the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria across 26 states — cataloguing load, solid minerals, agro-industrial capacity and tricycle fleets. Survey work continues; the remaining 593 LGAs are scheduled.
Where to begin
Three ways into the programme.
SEAP is a commercial programme, a State partnership and a supply chain at the same time. Start wherever you sit.
Development finance & investors
Survey-verified pipeline, franchise-level economics, an active generation and gas supply engagement, and measurable development impact across power, cooking and mobility.
Request the investment briefStates & local governments
A standing framework agreement covering all 774 LGAs, with a defined per-LGA commitment and carbon revenue accruing to the Council.
See the per-LGA commitmentTechnology & delivery partners
Supply, EPC, operations and maintenance scopes across distribution networks, solar and storage, cylinder logistics and battery swapping.
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Who is behind this.
SEAP is developed and implemented by Data Analytics & Solutions International Limited, a Nigerian company that has spent fifteen years assembling one programme rather than pursuing many projects. This page sets out who we are, why the programme exists in this form, and how we work.
The company
Data Analytics & Solutions International Limited.
Incorporated in Nigeria in November 2018 and registered as RC 1540421, DASIL is the project developer and Lead Implementer of the Sustainable Energy Access Projects Consortium. It originates and structures the programme, holds the relationships with Federal and State government, the Local Government Areas and the distribution companies, and runs the survey work that every franchise plan is built from.
DASIL does not operate the assets. Six licensed operating companies do that — gas supply, cooking gas, power, solar, mobility and productive use — each with its own licences, contracts and balance sheet.
Why SEAP exists
The conviction the programme is built on.
Nigeria's energy problem has never been a shortage of ideas or of goodwill. It is that the places with the greatest need — rural Local Government Areas holding the country's solid minerals and its agricultural capacity — are exactly the places where the network is weakest and where households can afford least. Capital avoids them for sound commercial reasons, and the circle closes.
What we concluded
- Financing single assets does not create a market. Two decades of investment built real plant and real capacity in Nigeria, but a weakness in any one link of the chain reduces the bankability of every other link. A power station without a creditworthy offtaker is an asset, not a business.
- Small does not reach affordability. Only at national scale do per-unit costs fall far enough for a tariff and a cooking fuel a poor household can actually pay. Affordability and bankability turn out to be the same equation.
- The poorest places are not the last stop. They are where the untapped value sits. Treating them as the residual of a national rollout guarantees they stay unserved.
What we built instead
- One commercially integrated programme. Gas, generation, distribution, cooking, mobility, industry and data financed together as a single system of contracted cashflows rather than as separate assets.
- The same undertaking in every Local Government Area. A defined minimum commitment carried into all 774, so a Council can hold the programme to it and an investor can underwrite against it.
- Break the circle from the productive end. Firm power attracts processing and industry to where the raw material already is, which creates the jobs and the purchasing power that let households pay for electricity.
- Prove it before asking for capital. Fifteen years of self-funded development, agreements executed across every link, 181 Local Government Areas surveyed on the ground, and conversion pilots running on Nigerian roads.
Leadership
Who runs the programme.
Enquiries are handled directly by the office of the Chief Executive rather than routed through a business development layer — a deliberate choice for a programme where most conversations are with governments and financiers.
Brian C. Amonu
Chief Executive Officer
Founder of DASIL and Lead Implementer of the SEAP Consortium, with fifteen years of singular focus on the programme. An early and sustained public advocate for compressed natural gas as Nigeria's answer to petrol subsidy removal, making that case on national television since 2023.
Chief Andy Ibekaku
Chief Operating Officer
Director of DASIL, responsible for the operational delivery of the programme across its pillars and territories.
The consortium
Eight members
DASIL sits alongside Industrial Analytics & Solutions, LONGi, NNPC Gas Marketing Limited, CCK Electric Power Technology, the Nigeria Governors' Forum, ALGON and the Raw Materials Research and Development Council.
How we work
Five rules the programme is run by.
These are not values statements. They are the operating decisions that shape what SEAP builds, in what order, and what it declines to claim.
Survey before committing
181 Local Government Areas visited and catalogued before any capital plan was drawn. A franchise is sized against measured load, not against a licence map.
Plan backwards from demand
Establish where the demand is and what it can pay, then size generation and evacuation to it. Megawatts contracted the other way round have not converted into delivered electricity.
Meter everything
No customer billed on an estimate. Prepaid supply and transformer-level energy balancing turn loss from a number in a report into a located, fixable fault.
Own the last mile
Distributorships held locally, half of them reserved for women, delivery work paid at or above minimum wage, and the sellers being displaced offered the business replacing their trade.
Claim only what is signed
Executed agreements are described as executed, engagements as engagements, and pilots that have not run are not called pilots. The programme's credibility is the asset it can least afford to spend.
Professional support
Legal counsel to DASIL and the SEAP programme is provided by A&E Law Partnership.
The Programme
One integrated system, not a portfolio of projects.
Nigeria's energy problem is not solved by generation alone. Power that cannot be distributed, billed and paid for does not reach a household; a household that receives electricity still cooks over firewood; a trader with light still pays fuel prices to move goods. SEAP treats supply, distribution, cooking, mobility and data as a single commercial system and deploys them together in the same territory — so each one makes the others bankable.
Seven Pillars
What SEAP builds.
Each pillar carries its own revenue line and its own delivery partners, and each is deployed into the same franchise territory so that one customer relationship serves all seven.
Gas supply & aggregation
Wholesale gas trading under licence, aggregating supply to generation and cylinder-filling nodes.
Power generation
Hybrid captive generation sized to each franchise's verified load, including an embedded utility-scale solar farm in every LGA to pull the tariff down.
Distribution & revenue assurance
Network rehabilitation, metering and energy-balance monitoring that turn supplied energy into collected revenue.
Clean cooking
Patented LPCNG and LPCBG cylinder technology moving households off firewood and kerosene.
Electric mobility
Conversion of petrol tricycles and motorcycles, with charging and battery-swap infrastructure.
Productive use & industry
Anchor industrial and agro-processing load attracted into franchise territories on firm power.
Digital & data infrastructure
Connectivity, data facilities and the survey database on which every investment decision is made.
Certified carbon assets
Emissions reductions across cooking and mobility, with credits accruing to the Local Government Councils.
The Per-LGA Commitment
The same undertaking, in every Local Government Area.
Under the collaboration agreement executed with the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria in January 2025, SEAP carries a defined minimum delivery commitment into each of the 774 LGAs. It is what a Council can hold the programme to, and what an investor can underwrite against.
Delivery Structure
Who executes each part.
SEAP is implemented through DASIL as developer and six operating companies beneath it, so that gas supply, cooking gas, power, solar, mobility and productive use are each licensed, run and financed as the distinct undertakings they are. One company's molecule becomes another's kilowatt-hour: the value flows between them inside a single programme, which is what makes the whole chain financeable rather than any one link of it.
Project developer and Lead Implementer of the programme — origination, structuring, State and Local Government engagement, and the survey database that every franchise plan is built from. The six operating companies below each hold their own licences, contracts and balance sheet.
The gas supply company. Holds the NMDPRA Natural Gas Wholesale Licence and a Shipper's Licence, contracts gas from producers, and delivers it to power stations to unlock stranded generation and to the cooking gas refilling plants.
The cooking gas company. Buys gas from IAS, builds and runs the refilling plants that fill the LPCNG and LPCBG cylinders, and delivers cooking gas to households across Nigeria and West Africa.
The power company. Buys the generation that the gas unlocks and holds the ring-fenced electricity distribution franchises with the host distribution companies.
The renewables company. Builds and operates the embedded utility-scale solar farms and battery storage inside each franchise — the capacity that pulls the delivered tariff down year on year.
The electric mobility company. Owns the batteries, the charging stations and the battery-swap network, and converts petrol tricycles to electric.
The productive-use company. Develops the agro-processing and industrial load that anchors each franchise, so value is added where the raw material already sits.
How SEAP Addresses the Challenge
The hard part was never the hardware.
Nigeria's power, cooking and mobility problems are usually described as engineering failures. They are not. The technology to solve all three has existed for decades and is manufactured at scale. What has failed is the collision between infrastructure that demands large, regular payments and customers who earn in cash, daily, and irregularly.
The Common Failure
Three sectors, one identical mistake.
A trader in Onitsha buys ₦500 of firewood today because she has ₦500 today. She is not offered a cooking fuel — she is offered a cylinder and a refill priced as a capital purchase. A keke rider fuels for a day's takings; he is offered a vehicle priced in years of them. A household that has never been metered is billed on an estimate it did not agree and will not pay.
Every one of these products was designed with payment terms for a salaried customer who does not exist in the market being served.
Power
Energy that is generated, delivered, and never paid for. SEAP ring-fences a franchise, generates inside it, meters every customer and sells prepaid.
Read the power answerClean cooking
The fuel is affordable; the entry ticket is not. SEAP sells gas in cylinders sized to a day's money — natural gas, biogas, or prepaid electric cooking.
Read the cooking answerE-mobility
The rider's economics changed in 2023 and never changed back. SEAP takes the battery off his balance sheet and sells him energy by the swap.
Read the mobility answerThe Answer · Challenge One
Power: energy that is generated, delivered, and never paid for.
Nigeria does not primarily have a generation problem. It has a delivery and collection problem severe enough that generation cannot be financed.
Why the conventional answers stall
- More generation does not help. Capacity already stands idle because the network cannot evacuate it and the revenue chain cannot pay for it. Adding megawatts upstream of a broken collection system enlarges the shortfall.
- Estimated billing destroys the customer relationship. An unmetered household billed on an estimate has no reason to pay and every reason to bypass. Losses then justify higher estimates, and the spiral deepens.
- Territory-wide rehabilitation is unfinanceable. No lender underwrites a licence area where losses average 37% and are not measured feeder by feeder. The unit that gets financed has to be smaller than a franchise territory.
What SEAP does instead
- Ring-fence a franchise, then fix it. SEAP takes a defined distribution franchise inside a DisCo territory and rebuilds it as a discrete, measurable business — network rehabilitation, transformers, conductors and protection, sized to surveyed load rather than to a licence map.
- Unlock generation that already exists. SEAP supplies gas to power stations whose turbines stand idle for want of it, and works with NISO on the evacuation pathway to move that power to the franchise. Building new plant is the slowest way to add megawatts; fuelling built plant is the fastest.
- Generate inside the franchise as well. A minimum of 5 MW of captive hybrid generation per Local Government Area — gas, solar PV and battery storage — so supply does not rest on transmission alone.
- Measure every transformer, meter every customer. Distribution-transformer energy balancing and check metering show exactly where energy leaves the network. Loss stops being an estimate and becomes a located, fixable fault.
- Sell energy prepaid. The customer pays before consumption, in the amounts and rhythm they actually earn. Collection efficiency ceases to be a recovery exercise.
Work in progress
Unlocking stranded generation, rather than building more.
Nigeria's fastest available megawatts are not in a new power station. They are in turbines that already exist, already commissioned, standing idle or part-loaded because the gas to fire them has not been contracted and the path to move the power has not been secured.
The stranded capacity
- Plant runs far below what it was built for. One National Integrated Power Project station with 562.5 MW installed and 450 MW available recorded a 44% load factor over a recent reporting week — better than half its available capacity unused, on plant already built and paid for.
- Gas is the binding constraint, not turbines. Capacity sits unfired because gas supply is uncontracted, not because the machinery is absent or unfit.
- The evacuation path is its own constraint. Distribution network data SEAP has obtained shows feeder lines many times longer than they should be and running over capacity, most injection substations in the target areas overloaded, and evacuation lines generally at their limit. Power that cannot be moved is not power.
- Supply-first planning keeps failing. Megawatts contracted without first establishing where the demand is, what it can pay and how the power reaches it produce agreements that never convert into delivered electricity.
What SEAP is doing about it
- Supplying the gas directly. Industrial Analytics & Solutions holds an active NMDPRA Wholesale Gas Supply Licence for 200 MMscf/d and a Shipper's Licence, and is engaging the Niger Delta Power Holding Company to fuel National Integrated Power Project plants whose capacity is currently stranded.
- Working with NISO on evacuation. Frequency is a system-wide property but voltage is local and governed by reactive power, so power flow, contingency, short-circuit and voltage-stability studies are required at each injection point — and they must be run by the system operator, because transfer capability along a corridor depends on every other participant's dispatch, not SEAP's alone.
- Investing in the evacuation pathway itself. Under every structure under consideration, SEAP is the party putting capital into the distribution infrastructure that delivers the power and collects the revenue behind it.
- Planning backwards from demand. SEAP surveys the load first, then sizes generation and evacuation to it. Cost to serve cannot be priced until generation availability, the evacuation pathway and the required network upgrades are known.
- Adding capacity at the same sites. Where demand established in the network data exceeds what can be allocated, SEAP proposes to invest in converting simple-cycle turbines to combined cycle and co-locating additional units — more megawatts from ground already developed.
- Building an embedded solar farm in every Local Government Area. Utility-scale solar sited inside the franchise itself, blended with gas generation and battery storage. Solar has no fuel cost and no exposure to the naira, so every kilowatt-hour it contributes pulls the franchise's average cost of energy down — permanently, and by more each year as fuel prices move.
What it means at the meter
Cheaper power, because SEAP brings the fuel — and then displaces it.
SEAP does not buy bundled energy from a generator. It delivers the gas itself and pays the plant to convert it — so generation enters the chain at conversion cost, not at a generator's bundled price. That difference, carried through transmission and distribution and including SEAP's own operations, maintenance and return, is what reaches the customer.
The second reduction comes from the sun. An embedded utility-scale solar farm in each Local Government Area, paired with battery storage, supplies a growing share of the franchise's energy at no fuel cost at all. Land is contributed as equity by the host Local Government and by institutions within the franchise, which takes the largest single line out of the capital cost. The tariff below is SEAP's target for that blend — grid supply, grid-tied solar and battery storage together — and the direction of travel is downward as each solar farm comes on.
The Answer · Challenge Two
Clean cooking: the fuel is affordable; the entry ticket is not.
Measured per meal, gas and electricity are usually cheaper than firewood. The household does not fail to switch because the fuel costs more. It fails to switch because it cannot cross the threshold — and around 80% of Nigerian households are on the wrong side of it.
The cylinder in this photograph is the whole argument. It is light enough for a woman to carry, cheap enough to be exchanged rather than bought outright, and it burns on the same stove she would use for bottled gas. Nothing about it is novel engineering. What is new is that it can be sold in the amount a household holds on the day it cooks.
Why the conventional answers stall
- The cylinder is the barrier, not the gas. A standard LPG cylinder plus its first fill is a capital purchase for a household that has never made one. Firewood asks for nothing upfront and is bought in the exact amount today's money allows.
- Refill economics punish the poor. Filling a large cylinder requires a lump sum on a fixed day. A household with irregular income cannot schedule that, so it returns to wood between fills and eventually stops returning.
- Distribution does not reach where wood is cheapest. Depots cluster in cities. The households most dependent on biomass are furthest from the supply chain built to displace it.
- Stove giveaways do not create a market. A donated stove with no affordable fuel behind it is abandoned within a season, and the programme reports a delivery number rather than a transition.
What SEAP does instead
- Compress gas into small, cheap, exchangeable cylinders. SEAP's patented LPCNG technology fills lightweight low-pressure cylinders from natural gas at a mother station and distributes them through local daughter outlets — sold in sizes a household buys with a day's or a week's money.
- Use biogas where the gas grid does not reach. LPCBG applies the identical cylinder, stove and distribution system to biogas produced from agricultural and organic waste, so rural households join the same supply chain without waiting for pipeline infrastructure.
- The household never refills anything. Cylinders are exchanged, not refilled, and the exchange is brought to the door — young people employed by the local distributorship deliver a full cylinder and carry the empty one away. No queue, no depot, no deposit cycle, and no journey by the woman who cooks.
- Sell convenience, not only savings. Firewood has to be gathered or carried; LPG has to be hauled to a depot and paid for in a lump. A cylinder that arrives at the door, in a size one person can lift, bought in the amount held that day, competes on the household's time as much as on its money — which is why it is adopted rather than admired.
- A safer gas in the kitchen. Natural gas and biogas are lighter than air, so a leak rises and disperses instead of pooling at floor level the way LPG does. The cylinder is small and low-pressure by design, and the regulator and prepaid meter sit in one sealed housing with an anti-bypass connector.
- Add pay-as-you-go electric cooking where SEAP already supplies power. In franchise territories the household cooks on electricity bought prepaid through its meter, in the same increments it buys light.
- Own the cylinder, so the household never buys one. SEAP owns the cylinders and amortises them across the programme. The household pays for gas, never for the vessel — which is the cost that has kept it on firewood.
- Meter it prepaid, like airtime. A prepaid meter sits between cylinder and stove, so the household buys cooking gas in the amount it holds that day and is told when the cylinder is running low.
- Move it cheaply and far. Compressed gas trucked to local refilling adds only a few tens of naira per cylinder over distances of up to a thousand kilometres, so the price does not collapse the moment you leave the city.
- Distribute through filling stations that already exist. Under SEAP's partnership with the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, member stations are to act as mini depots for LPCNG cylinders — the same forecourts intended to carry SEAP's EV charging and battery swap. The stations hold the stock; young people employed by the local distributorship carry full cylinders to homes and bring the empties back, so the household itself never travels and never refills.
- Fund the transition with carbon. Verified emissions reductions from displaced wood and charcoal subsidise the equipment cost, with credits accruing to the Local Government Council. The household is not asked to pay for the climate benefit it delivers.
The household arithmetic
What a kitchen actually saves.
These are the working figures SEAP uses across its clean cooking documents, on a household consuming the equivalent of 12.5 kg of cooking gas a month. At ₦550–600 per kilogramme that household spends about ₦6,875–7,500 a month, against roughly ₦18,125 on LPG at Abuja prices — a saving of some ₦11,000 every month, in a home where that sum is the difference between paying school fees and not. Prices move; the ratio between them has held.
LPG price surveyed in Abuja. Prices move with the market; this page reads the latest recorded figure each time it is opened.
Field observation supports the same ratio. During the October 2024 technical mission by a Nigerian delegation — the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources (Gas), the Federal Ministry of Finance, the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs, IPMAN and a scientist from Modern Energy Cooking Services, the UK government's cooking-energy research programme — households were observed cooking at about half the cost of LPG, with 5 kg of natural gas or biogas lasting a household 15 to 17 days. The cylinder is methane-agnostic: it carries natural gas or biogas without modification, which is what makes a single national supply chain possible. The technology is in daily commercial service in more than fourteen countries, five of them in Africa.
What the household actually gets
Three reasons a kitchen changes fuel.
Price alone has never moved a Nigerian household off firewood, because firewood's real advantages are that it asks for no money upfront and is always to hand. SEAP has to beat it on all three counts at once — cost, convenience and safety — or it does not get adopted.
About ₦7,500 a month against roughly ₦18,125 on LPG at Abuja prices — close to two-thirds off the cooking bill, bought in whatever amount the household holds that day rather than in a lump sum it has to save for.
The cylinder arrives at the door and the empty is taken away. No gathering, no depot, no queue, no refilling — and it is light enough for one person to lift. The household's time is returned along with its money.
Natural gas and biogas are lighter than air: a leak rises and disperses rather than pooling at floor level as LPG does. Small cylinder, low pressure, sealed regulator and meter housing, and no open flame in the room.
The reason all of this matters: the fire goes out of the kitchen. Household air pollution is linked to some 93,000 deaths a year in Nigeria, borne overwhelmingly by the woman at the stove and the child beside her.
The capital problem
The money exists. It has nowhere bankable to go.
Universal clean cooking by 2030 needs around US$4.5 billion a year. Global investment runs at two to three billion. The shortfall is not a shortage of capital — it is the absence of a structure capital can enter. LPG is priced out and exposed to the naira. Electric cooking is blocked behind a broken power chain. And a stove programme, however well run, produces no contracted cashflow a lender can underwrite.
SEAP's answer is to stop treating cooking as a stand-alone programme. Cooking sits inside an integrated energy platform that already owns the gas licence, the generation relationship and the distribution franchise — so the fuel is cheap because the system is integrated, and the cashflow is bankable because it is contracted alongside power, mobility and industrial demand. Affordability and bankability turn out to be the same equation.
The last mile
The distribution network is also the inclusion engine.
Getting a cylinder from a refilling plant into a kitchen is the part of clean cooking that usually fails. SEAP builds that last mile as a community-owned business rather than a logistics cost — which is what makes it reach, and what makes it employ.
SEAP refilling and compression plants fill the 5 kg cylinders, sized to the supply available locally — pipeline gas, flare gas, or biogas.
Distributor-owned exchange centres hold stock in the community, including at partner filling-station forecourts. The distributorship is a business owned locally, not a SEAP depot.
Young people deliver full cylinders to homes and carry the empties back, paid at or above minimum wage. The household never travels, never queues and never refills anything.
The household cooks on gas or biogas, paying through a prepaid meter in the amount it holds that day. No cylinder deposit, no lump sum, no queue — and a gas lighter than air, which disperses rather than pooling in the room.
Who the network belongs to
- Half of all distributorships are reserved for women. Not a target — a condition of the model, because women are the people this fuel is being bought for and the ones who currently carry the cost of not having it.
- The rest go to the sellers being displaced. Firewood, charcoal and kerosene traders are offered the distributorship of the fuel replacing their trade. A transition that impoverishes the incumbent seller does not hold.
- Youth delivery is paid work, at or above minimum wage. The last mile is employment, not an unpaid gig layer added to make the unit economics close.
What it produces per LGA
- Around 300 last-mile jobs in a Local Government Area of 20,000 converted households — distributorships, delivery and exchange-centre work.
- A majority of those enterprises women-led, by design rather than by outcome.
- Hours returned to households that currently spend between two and six a day gathering fuel — time that goes back to school, to trade and to rest.
- A carbon revenue share to the State, recurring and non-tax, and applied to buying down what the household pays.
Figures illustrative, to be confirmed by the bankable financial model and verified measurement.
Carbon finance
Carbon revenue is a price mechanism, not a reporting line.
Moving a household off firewood, charcoal and kerosene avoids materially more emissions than moving one off LPG — which is why SEAP's focus on the roughly 80% of homes that have never cooked with gas is also what makes the carbon case strong.
What is displaced
Firewood, charcoal and kerosene replaced by gas, biogas or prepaid electric cooking, household by household.
Deforestation reduced
Lower fuelwood demand takes sustained pressure off woodland around every growing Nigerian town, preserving the carbon sink itself.
Metered, not estimated
Aligned to recognised clean-cooking methodologies, with digital meter-based measurement and verification — so the tonnage is read from the meter rather than modelled.
Into the price
Carbon revenue buys down the tariff and the cylinder cost, funds the measurement, and provides a recurring non-tax revenue share to the State.
Designed for both cooperative approaches under Article 6 and the voluntary market. Tonnage and pricing are indicative until confirmed by a validated methodology and verified measurement.
The Answer · Challenge Three
E-mobility: the rider's economics changed in 2023 and never changed back.
When petrol subsidy was removed in May 2023, the daily cost of running a commercial tricycle rose faster than any fare the rider could charge. Millions of keke and okada operators have carried that difference out of their own margin ever since.
There are millions of these already working in Nigerian towns, and their owners cannot afford to replace them. SEAP converts the vehicle the rider already owns, and takes the battery — the single most expensive component — onto its own balance sheet.
Why the conventional answers stall
- The battery is roughly half the vehicle. Selling a rider an electric tricycle with its battery included means asking a daily-earning operator for a sum he has never been able to save, to replace a vehicle that still runs.
- Charging takes the vehicle off the road. Hours plugged in are hours not earning. A rider will not accept a technology that costs him his working day, however cheap the electricity.
- Charging infrastructure has nothing to plug into. Public charging built on an unreliable grid, or backed by a diesel generator, either fails or reintroduces the fuel cost it was meant to remove.
- Financing is priced for someone else. Conventional asset finance assumes documented income and a monthly instalment. The rider has neither, and is excluded by the very product designed to include him.
What SEAP does instead
- Separate the battery from the vehicle. The rider never buys the battery. SEAP owns it and sells energy, which cuts the price of entering electric mobility to a fraction of the vehicle cost.
- Swap, do not charge. A depleted pack is exchanged for a charged one in minutes at a swap station. The rider's working day is uninterrupted, and he pays per swap — the same daily rhythm in which he used to buy petrol.
- Convert the tricycles already on the road. Conversion of existing petrol tricycles preserves the asset the rider owns instead of writing it off, and reaches scale far faster than replacing a national fleet. A minimum of 1,000 conversions per Local Government Area is committed.
- Power the swap stations from the franchise. Swap and charging infrastructure sits on SEAP's own hybrid generation and distribution network, so the energy is firm, its cost is known, and no diesel enters the chain.
Why SEAP can deliver
Reliable, accessible, affordable — and why each one holds.
The binding constraint on Nigerian electric mobility is not vehicles, conversion capacity or even vehicle finance. It is charging and battery-swap infrastructure that is reliably powered, physically within reach, and priced for a rider who earns daily. SEAP addresses all three from the same programme, which is what a standalone mobility company cannot do.
One
Reliable
A swap station is only as good as the power behind it. SEAP owns that power rather than hoping for it.
- Power from gas SEAP itself supplies. The same gas licence that fuels stranded generation supplies the electricity that charges the batteries. The mobility business is not a customer of the power business — they are the same balance sheet.
- Evacuation planned with the system operator. Working with NISO on the injection and transfer studies means charging load is planned into the network rather than added on top of a network already at its limit. This e-mobility demand has been written into SEAP's submissions to NDPHC as new load that must be provided for.
- Embedded solar and storage at the station. Each site is designed with its own solar and battery storage alongside the grid connection, so a swap station keeps serving riders through a grid outage — the failure mode that has defeated most public charging in Nigeria.
- Sized against real duty cycles. Planning basis is roughly 10 kWh per day for an electric keke and around 50 kWh per day for a passenger EV, taken from operating vehicles rather than from datasheets.
Two
Accessible
Infrastructure a rider cannot reach within his working radius does not exist as far as he is concerned.
- Built on forecourts that already exist, nationwide. SEAP's partnership with the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) is to place EV charging and battery-swap stations on member filling stations — sites already zoned for fuel retail, already staffed, already where drivers and riders stop. In the North-West zone alone, IPMAN wrote to SEAP in April 2026 citing over 10,000 active retail stations across seven states and asking for exactly this. No other route to national coverage is as fast, because the property, the access and the customer habit are already in place.
- One universal battery across every commercial segment. SEAP is deploying a single battery technology shared by two-wheelers, tricycles, minibuses and light cargo trucks. One swap station therefore serves four vehicle populations rather than waiting for any one of them to reach density — and a rider, a bus operator and a delivery fleet all draw from the same racks.
- Anchored by the per-LGA power commitment. The minimum 5 MW carried into every Local Government Area is what makes a swap station viable outside the big cities — which is where the tricycle economy actually is.
- Minutes, not hours. Swapping a depleted pack for a charged one takes the time it used to take to buy petrol. The rider's working day is not interrupted, which is the condition on which he will adopt anything at all.
- Conversion in an afternoon. A petrol tricycle is converted to electric in two to three hours, on the vehicle the rider already owns, rather than waiting on an imported replacement.
- The same sites are to carry the cooking gas. IPMAN stations will also serve as mini depots for SEAP's LPCNG cylinders, so one forecourt becomes a charging point, a battery-swap station and a cooking-gas exchange at once — three SEAP businesses sharing one site, one host relationship and one delivery run.
Three
Affordable — and why scale is what makes it so
Affordability here is not a discount. It is an arithmetic consequence of doing this at national volume, on standardised equipment, across three pillars that share the same customer.
- Conversion instead of replacement. Converting an existing petrol tricycle costs a fraction of a new electric vehicle — the financing that buys one new keke converts five to seven existing ones. For a lender that means the same naira carries five times the income potential with its risk spread across five borrowers instead of concentrated in one.
- The rider never buys the battery. SEAP owns the packs and sells energy by the swap, removing the single most expensive component from the rider's side of the transaction and converting his capital problem into a daily operating cost he already knows how to manage.
- One universal battery, bought at programme scale. Because a single battery technology serves two-wheelers, tricycles, minibuses and light cargo trucks, procurement is one large repeat order rather than several bespoke ones — and every station holds one kind of stock instead of four. Standardisation is what turns national scale into a purchasing advantage rather than a logistics burden.
- Sites shared with the cooking business. The same IPMAN forecourt hosts charging, battery swap and LPCNG cylinder exchange, so site costs, host relationships and delivery routes are carried by three revenue lines instead of one.
- Shared infrastructure across pillars. Charging sites sit on the same franchise network, the same generation and the same metering as the power and clean cooking businesses. A standalone operator must build all of that for mobility alone and price it into the swap.
- Energy cost, not fuel cost. With petrol at present pump prices, conversion cuts a rider's transport running cost by roughly half — the single largest expense in his trade.
- Carbon revenue applied against the price. Each conversion generates verified emissions reductions, and that revenue is used to reduce what the rider pays rather than being booked as a separate return.
- Financing routed to where the cost of capital is lowest. Vehicles, batteries and charging infrastructure are financed as separate instruments through the institutions best suited to each, instead of one expensive facility carrying all three.
The Answer · Three Pathways
Natural gas, biogas and prepaid electricity — chosen by geography, not by preference.
SEAP does not advocate a single cooking fuel. Nigeria is too varied for that, and a programme that commits to one technology strands every household the technology cannot reach. Each pathway shares the same cylinders, the same stoves where applicable, and the same pay-as-you-go logic — so a household can move between them as infrastructure arrives.
| LPCNGLow-pressure compressed natural gas | LPCBGLow-pressure compressed biogas | PAYG electricPrepaid electric cooking | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where it fits | Towns and corridors within reach of gas supply and a mother station | Agricultural and rural areas with organic waste feedstock and no gas grid | Households inside a SEAP distribution franchise with a working meter |
| Feedstock | Pipeline and virtual-pipeline natural gas; associated gas currently flared at producing flow stations; and capped or stranded gas fields with no route to market | Anaerobic digestion of agricultural, market and organic waste | Hybrid gas, solar PV and battery generation inside the franchise |
| How the household pays | Pays through a prepaid meter, in the amount held that day. A full cylinder is delivered to the door and the empty taken away | Identical prepaid metering and door-to-door exchange, supplied from the local digester | Prepaid units through the meter, in the amount held that day |
| Entry cost | Cylinder and burner, subsidised by carbon revenue | Cylinder and burner, subsidised by carbon revenue | Cooking appliance only — the meter is already installed |
| What it displaces | Firewood, charcoal and kerosene | Firewood and charcoal, plus untreated organic waste | Firewood, charcoal and bottled gas top-ups |
| Second benefit | Anchors the gas demand that makes franchise generation viable | Waste management, and digestate returned to farmland | Adds morning and evening load that improves franchise economics |
Every pathway generates verified emissions reductions. Carbon revenue is what allows the entry cost to be pushed below what the household would otherwise have to find — and the credits accrue to the Local Government Council.
Where the gas comes from
Molecules that are currently wasted, or have nowhere to go.
The cheapest gas in Nigeria is gas that is already being burned for nothing, or that has been found and then shut in because no pipeline was ever built to it. SEAP's cylinder needs neither a pipeline nor a national grid to reach a household, which means it can monetise supply that conventional gas infrastructure has written off.
Flared associated gas
Gas produced alongside oil at flow stations and burned at the stack because capturing it has never paid. Recovered into cylinders it becomes a cooking fuel, and the flare — one of the most visible emissions sources in the Niger Delta — is reduced rather than offset.
Capped and stranded fields
Discovered gas that was shut in because no pipeline reached it and no single buyer justified building one. A cylinder supply chain aggregates household demand into an offtake those fields can actually serve, without waiting on transmission infrastructure.
Pipeline and virtual pipeline
Conventional processed natural gas, taken from the pipeline network where it exists and trucked as compressed gas where it does not — SEAP holds an active wholesale gas supply licence and a shipper's licence in its own right.
Biogas from waste
Anaerobic digestion of agricultural, market and municipal organic waste, filling the identical cylinder for the identical stove. This is what carries the model into rural areas that no gas source of any kind will reach.
The cylinder is methane-agnostic — it carries natural gas or biogas without modification — so a household never has to care which of these four sources filled it. That is what allows one national distribution model to serve a country whose gas geography is entirely uneven.
The Answer · The System
Each one makes the next two bankable.
Deployed separately, all three are marginal businesses serving low-income customers at high cost of acquisition. Deployed into the same franchise territory, over the same customer relationship and the same balance sheet, they stop competing for the household's money and start reinforcing one another.
The franchise builds generation, network and metering, and acquires the customer. That relationship is the most expensive thing in all three businesses, and it is paid for once.
Cooking gas demand anchors the gas volume that makes franchise generation economic, and the same households, already metered, become electric cooking customers at no new acquisition cost.
Swap stations are large, predictable, night-time loads that flatten the franchise's demand curve and improve the return on generation already built and paid for.
Cooking and mobility conversions generate verified emissions reductions that subsidise household entry costs, while survey and metering data underwrites the next franchise.
This is why SEAP is structured as one programme across 774 Local Government Areas rather than as three separate companies. The economics only close when the pillars share a customer.
Impact
What changes, for whom, and by how much.
SEAP exists to move households and local economies out of poverty. This page sets out what that means in measurable terms across every pillar — the published evidence behind each claim, and what the programme's per-LGA commitments amount to when applied across all 774 Local Government Areas.
These are SEAP's minimum per-LGA delivery commitments, multiplied across the 774 Local Government Areas covered by the ALGON Collaboration Agreement of 13 January 2025. They describe the programme at full deployment, not work completed to date.
Pillar 05
Electric mobility
The commercial tricycle is one of the dirtiest vehicles on a Nigerian road, and one of the most economically important. Converting it is the single highest-leverage air quality intervention available in an African city.
Peer-reviewed measurement of motorcycle and tricycle taxis found that particulate emissions per kilometre are three times higher from a four-stroke engine, and up to three hundred times higher from a two-stroke engine, than from a passenger car. These vehicles operate at street level, in dense traffic, beside pedestrians and traders, for ten to fourteen hours a day.
The same study modelled the effect of electrifying them. Measured per vehicle, per year:
| Pollutant | Petrol | Electric | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unburnt hydrocarbons | 11.2 kg | 0.1 kg | −99% |
| Carbon monoxide | 61 kg | 6.2 kg | −90% |
| Nitrogen oxides | 3.1 kg | 1.3 kg | −58% |
| Carbon dioxide | 1,560 kg | 1,002 kg | −36% |
The economic impact runs alongside the environmental one, and scale is what produces it. Conversion cuts a rider's running cost by roughly half, in a trade where fuel is the largest expense. Because converting an existing tricycle costs a fraction of buying a new electric one, the financing that would put one new vehicle on the road instead converts five to seven — five to seven households earning more, from the same capital, with the lender's risk spread across five borrowers rather than concentrated in one. The same swappable battery standard serves motorcycles, tricycles and minibuses, so one set of station equipment earns from three vehicle populations.
Applied across the programme's committed 1,000 conversions per Local Government Area — 774,000 vehicles — those per-vehicle factors imply roughly 432,000 tonnes of CO₂, 43,000 tonnes of carbon monoxide and 8,500 tonnes of unburnt hydrocarbons avoided each year, before counting the reduction from clean charging. Every one of those vehicles also carries a rider whose daily energy cost falls sharply, in a trade where fuel is the largest single expense.
Pillar 04
Clean cooking
The largest single health burden SEAP touches, and the one that falls almost entirely on women and young children.
Close to 30 million Nigerian households cook on wood and charcoal. Household air pollution is credibly linked to between 64,000 and 95,000 deaths a year in Nigeria, and Nigeria ranks tenth in the world for the severity of indoor air pollution. The exposure is concentrated on whoever stands over the fire and whoever is carried on her back while she does.
Around 1% of households cook with electricity. Under business-as-usual projections, that reaches no more than 2% by 2030 — which is to say the transition does not happen on its own.
Beyond health, the switch returns two things a poor household cannot otherwise buy: the hours spent gathering or queuing for fuel, and the money lost to the premium the poor pay for buying energy in the smallest possible quantities. It also takes sustained pressure off the woodlands around every growing Nigerian town.
Pillars 01–03
Gas, generation and distribution
Reliable power is what turns every other intervention from a service into an economy.
In the first quarter of 2026 the grid made an average of 4,458 MW available to more than 200 million people, while distribution companies lost 37.44% of what they received against a 16.92% regulatory target. The gap is filled privately, by millions of petrol and diesel generators running at several times grid cost, in the open air, beside the people who own them.
SEAP targets a delivered tariff of ₦136–₦170 per kWh against a Band A tariff of ₦224 — achieved by blending grid supply with grid-tied solar and battery storage, and by supplying the gas itself so generation enters the chain at conversion cost rather than at a generator's bundled price. Its commitment of 5 MW of captive hybrid generation per Local Government Area displaces petrol and diesel self-generation directly, at lower cost and without the noise, fumes and fire risk it carries. For a small business, firm power is the difference between operating hours and idle ones — it is the mechanism by which a clinic refrigerates vaccines, a welder works a full day, and a cold room lets a farmer sell on her own terms rather than at the end of the harvest glut.
Pillars 06–07
Productive use, industry and data
Power without demand is a stranded asset. Demand without power is a stranded economy.
SEAP surveys each Local Government Area before it builds, cataloguing solid minerals, industrial-scale agricultural potential and existing commercial load. Firm power is then used to attract processing and industry to the place where the raw material already is, rather than exporting it unprocessed and importing the finished good.
That is where durable employment comes from — not from the construction of the power plant, which is temporary, but from the businesses that become possible once the power is firm. 181 Local Government Areas across 26 states have been surveyed on this basis so far.
Carbon
Who the carbon revenue belongs to
The households delivering the emissions reduction should not be the ones paying for it.
Displaced firewood, charcoal and petrol generate verified emissions reductions at scale across the cooking and mobility pillars. Under the ALGON Collaboration Agreement those carbon credits accrue to the Local Government Councils in whose territory they are earned.
Commercially, that revenue is what allows the entry cost of a cylinder, a burner or a conversion to be pushed below what a poor household could otherwise find. It is the mechanism that makes the whole affordability argument work, rather than a reporting line at the end of it.
Alignment
Which Sustainable Development Goals each pillar serves.
SEAP was not designed backwards from the Goals, and this is not a badge exercise. The mapping below sets out, pillar by pillar, which SDGs the work actually advances and by what mechanism — the form a development financier needs in order to place the programme against its own mandate. Goals marked in yellow are the primary ones for that pillar.
| Pillar | Sustainable Development Goals | The mechanism |
|---|---|---|
| Pillar 01Gas supply & aggregation | 7Affordable and Clean Energy13Climate Action12Responsible Consumption9Industry & Infrastructure3Good Health and Well-being | Recovering flared and stranded gas turns a wasted, emitting resource into a domestic fuel — the clearest single overlap between an emissions goal and an energy access goal. Ending routine flaring also removes a direct source of respiratory harm in the communities living beside it. |
| Pillar 02Power generation | 7Affordable and Clean Energy13Climate Action3Good Health and Well-being9Industry & Infrastructure11Sustainable Communities12Responsible Consumption | Hybrid gas, solar and storage inside each franchise displaces petrol and diesel self-generation — the dirtiest and most expensive power in the country, burned in the open air beside the households that own it. An embedded utility-scale solar farm in every Local Government Area raises the renewable share year on year and pulls the tariff down with it. |
| Pillar 03Distribution & revenue assurance | 7Affordable and Clean Energy10Reduced Inequalities3Good Health and Well-being4Quality Education6Clean Water and Sanitation9Industry & Infrastructure11Sustainable Communities | This is the pillar the other Goals depend on. Network rehabilitation and 100% metering end estimated billing and carry firm supply into Local Government Areas the grid has written off — and firm supply is what lets a clinic refrigerate vaccines, a school run evening lessons and a borehole pump water. Electricity is not one Goal among seventeen; it is the precondition for several of them. |
| Pillar 04Clean cooking | 3Good Health and Well-being5Gender Equality7Affordable and Clean Energy15Life on Land13Climate Action | The pillar with the widest SDG reach: household air pollution is a health emergency borne by women and children, fuel gathering costs women two to six hours a day, and firewood demand drives deforestation. Half of all distributorships are reserved for women. |
| Pillar 05Electric mobility | 11Sustainable Communities8Decent Work & Growth3Good Health and Well-being13Climate Action | Converting commercial tricycles cuts street-level particulates in dense traffic and lowers the largest operating cost in a rider's trade, in a sector that employs millions informally. |
| Pillar 06Productive use & industry | 8Decent Work & Growth1No Poverty2Zero Hunger9Industry & Infrastructure | Firm power attracts agro-processing and mineral beneficiation to the rural Local Government Areas where the raw material already sits — value added where the jobs are scarcest, rather than exported unprocessed. |
| Pillar 07Digital & data infrastructure | 9Industry & Infrastructure4Quality Education8Decent Work & Growth | Connectivity and data facilities on firm power, plus the survey database that makes rural investment legible to capital for the first time. |
| CarbonCertified carbon assets | 13Climate Action15Life on Land17Partnerships for the Goals | Verified emissions reductions from displaced firewood, charcoal and petrol, with credits accruing to the Local Government Councils and applied to reducing what households pay. |
A note on the power pillars. Goal 7 is not an end in itself in the way Goal 3 or Goal 4 are — it is the goal that makes the others reachable. Nothing in health, education, water, industry or gender equality survives contact with a community that has no reliable electricity, which is why SEAP's three power pillars carry the widest indirect reach in the mapping even though they name fewer Goals directly. A DFI assessing SEAP against a health or education mandate should read the distribution pillar, not only the cooking one.
Cross-cutting
Goals the whole programme carries.
Four run through every pillar rather than belonging to any one of them, because they are properties of how SEAP is structured rather than of what it builds.
Gender Equality
Half of all clean cooking distributorships reserved for women, and women's enterprise built into the mobility and last-mile businesses by design rather than as an outcome.
Decent Work and Economic Growth
Around 300 last-mile jobs per converted Local Government Area, youth delivery paid at or above minimum wage, and a just transition offered to the firewood and charcoal sellers being displaced.
Reduced Inequalities
The programme deploys into all 774 Local Government Areas rather than the commercially easiest ones, which is the whole argument for building it as a single national platform.
Partnerships for the Goals
Delivered through the Nigeria Governors' Forum, ALGON, the distribution companies, federal agencies and UNDP rather than around them.
Institutional Foundations
Agreements and partners already in place.
SEAP was unveiled at the Presidential Villa in April 2025 before the Chairpersons of all 774 Local Government Areas. The relationships below were established before that unveiling or in the months since, and they are the basis on which deployment proceeds.
- NISO
- The Nigeria Independent System Operator has issued a letter of support for SEAP implementation, and is working in collaboration with SEAP on the evacuation pathway for the generation its gas supply unlocks.
- NGML
- NNPC Gas Marketing Limited has issued a letter of support for gas supply to SEAP implementation across all 774 Local Government Areas.
- NDPHC
- Letter of support issued 2 September 2026 (Ref NDPHC/NIPP/ED(SC)/COMM/030/2026), confirming support in principle and an indicative power tariff, in response to SEAP's request for a minimum of 200 MW.
- ALGON
- Collaboration agreement of 13 January 2025 covering all 774 Local Government Areas.
- RMRDC
- The Raw Materials Research and Development Council, a Federal Government agency and a member of the SEAP Consortium.
- Nigeria Governors' Forum
- Memorandum of understanding, with active work to identify and market State investment opportunities requiring power.
- Phase 1 distribution companies
- Executed agreements with five distribution companies, under which network data is being shared and target distribution franchise networks identified. Franchise agreements are under active negotiation.
- LONGi
- Executed memorandum of understanding for solar PV and battery energy storage supply, with solar farm EPC and O&M.
- CCK Electric
- Sagamu factory manufacturing transformers, auto-reclosers, distribution cabinets, conductors and smart meters for the franchises.
- UNDP
- Engaged with SEAP on clean cooking, including preparation of household pilots in Imo and Nasarawa States.
- Imo and Nasarawa States
- Engaged with both State Governments on clean cooking, e-mobility and industrial power within their territories.
- United Capital Consultants
- US-based energy developer carrying over 6,000 MW of engineering, development and EPC experience, engaged with its South-East Asian partners on franchise operations and maintenance and distribution network rehabilitation.
- EXNEB & Medhaj
- Franchise operations and maintenance, transmission and distribution rehabilitation, and power-system engineering.
- Wholesale gas licence
- Industrial Analytics & Solutions holds an active NMDPRA Wholesale Gas Supply Licence (NMDPRA-WGSL-IASL-2025-110, 200 MMscf/d) together with a Shipper's Licence.
The Fifteen-Year Journey
Fifteen years of private development, and the agreements to show for it.
SEAP is not an early-stage idea seeking capital to begin. The programme was built by vertical integration through collaboration — going to every link of the gas and power value chain, identifying the challenge each one could not solve alone, and mitigating it, so that what reaches a financier is a large-scale energy programme rather than an isolated asset. This page is the method and the evidence.
The method
Vertical integration by collaboration.
SEAP does not own Nigeria's energy value chain and has never tried to. It integrates it by agreement. Every link — the gas producer, the generator, the system operator, the distribution company, the Local Government, the equipment manufacturer, the household — is a separate business with its own regulator, its own board and its own sound commercial reason to say no.
So the work was to go to each one, establish the specific thing preventing it from serving the next link, and design the programme so that obstacle is removed rather than argued with. Only when every link had been addressed could the whole thing be presented to financiers as what it needs to be: a large-scale energy programme of contracted cashflows, capable of attracting project finance, rather than a collection of assets each depending on something outside its control.
| The link | Why it says no | What had to be resolved to secure buy-in |
|---|---|---|
| Gas supply | Producers will not commit molecules to a downstream that cannot pay for them, and will not build for a buyer who may not be there. | SEAP took the licences itself — an NMDPRA Natural Gas Wholesale Licence and a Shipper's Licence — and aggregated demand across power generation and household cooking, so the volume being contracted is large enough and diverse enough to be worth serving. |
| Generation | Commissioned plant stands part-loaded for want of contracted gas and a creditworthy offtaker. Neither problem can be solved by the generator alone. | SEAP delivers the gas and pays for conversion rather than buying bundled energy, which removes the fuel risk from the generator and the bundled price from the buyer. |
| Transmission and system operation | Corridors are congested and no single participant can be promised capacity, because transfer capability depends on every other party's dispatch. | The injection and transfer studies are run with the system operator rather than around it, and SEAP invests in the evacuation pathway instead of assuming it exists. |
| Distribution | Companies decline power they cannot bill for. With losses running near 37% against a 17% target, more energy delivered can mean more money lost. | Ring-fenced franchises in which SEAP puts the capital into network rehabilitation and full metering, and carries the collection risk — so the DisCo's exposure falls as supply rises. |
| Local and State government | There was no counterparty able to contract on behalf of Local Government Areas at national scale, and no single State could underwrite a national programme. | A collaboration agreement with ALGON covering all 774 Local Government Areas, and a memorandum with the Nigeria Governors' Forum at State level. |
| Equipment | Imported plant carries foreign exchange exposure and lead times that make a national rollout unfinanceable. | Transformers, reclosers, cabinets, conductors and meters manufactured in Nigeria, so the cost base and the delivery schedule sit inside the country. |
| The household and the rider | Customers earn daily and in cash. Every product offered to them had been priced for someone who earns monthly. | Prepaid electricity, cylinders owned by SEAP and paid for by the meter, and batteries owned by SEAP and paid for by the swap. The customer never faces a capital purchase. |
| Project finance | Lenders will not underwrite one asset that depends on links it does not control, and a weakness in any single link reduces the bankability of the whole chain. | One integrated programme presented as a system of contracted, diversified cashflows — which is the only form in which this chain becomes financeable. |
Executed
Agreements in place.
Each of these was negotiated and signed before any institutional capital entered the programme. Together they give SEAP the rights, the territory, the equipment and the customers to deploy against.
| Counterparty | Instrument | What it establishes |
|---|---|---|
| Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) | Collaboration Agreement13 January 2025 | Covers all 774 Local Government Areas. Establishes SEAP's per-LGA delivery commitment, exclusive ownership and operation of captive distribution franchises within LG-allocated economic zones, provision for long-term power purchase agreements, and carbon credits accruing to the Councils. |
| Nigeria Governors' Forum | Memorandum of UnderstandingExecuted | Collaboration on SEAP implementation across the States, with a standing Technical Committee on SEAP Implementation constituted by the Forum to carry the work forward. |
| Five Phase 1 distribution companies | Non-disclosure agreementsFranchise negotiations ongoing | Executed with each of the five Phase 1 distribution companies, under which network and injection-substation data is shared and target franchise areas identified. Franchise agreements are in active negotiation across the group. |
| LONGi | Memorandum of UnderstandingPlus Addendum No. 1 | Solar photovoltaic and battery energy storage supply for the programme, with solar farm engineering, procurement, construction and operations. The addendum names the construction contractor for one of the Phase 1 territories. |
| CCK Electric Power Technology | Collaboration AgreementParty to the ALGON agreement | Local manufacturing at the Sagamu factory — transformers, auto-reclosers, distribution cabinets, overhead and armoured conductors, smart meters and more than thirty other categories of electrical equipment. |
| Tricycle Owners Association of Nigeria | Off-taker agreementNationwide | Executed nationwide off-taker agreement covering the tricycle fleet for the electric conversion programme. |
| Keke Association of Nigeria | Executed agreement | Operator recruitment channel for the petrol-to-electric conversion programme. |
| Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria | Framework agreementEight states | Solar-as-a-service, EV charging, battery swapping and LPCNG cylinder depots at member filling stations across Kaduna, Sokoto, Kano, Jigawa, Zamfara, Niger, Nasarawa and the F.C.T., with site terms by work order. |
| NNPC | Contract award8 November 2022 | A mandate to understudy the Nigerian power value chain across seventeen states and determine the investment opportunities that require power and gas. It is the origin of everything that followed: the survey method, the decision to begin at distribution rather than generation, and the finding that the opportunities needing energy sit where the network is weakest. |
SEAP also holds, through Industrial Analytics & Solutions, an active NMDPRA Natural Gas Wholesale Licence for 200 MMscf/d together with a Shipper's Licence — the licences that allow the programme to contract gas from producers and deliver it in its own right rather than through an intermediary.
Support secured
Who has written in, and what they asked for.
Alongside the executed agreements sit letters of support from the institutions that control the two things SEAP cannot supply itself — the gas molecule and the path the power travels — together with expressions of interest and formal requests, several of them unsolicited, from the communities and trade bodies whose members are the end customers.
| Party | Instrument | Substance |
|---|---|---|
| NNPC Gas Marketing Limited (NGML) | Letter of support | Support for gas supply to SEAP implementation across all 774 Local Government Areas — the feedstock commitment that stands behind both the generation SEAP unlocks and the cooking gas it delivers. |
| Nigeria Independent System Operator (NISO) | Letter of support | Support for SEAP implementation, alongside the working collaboration on the evacuation pathway for the generation the programme's gas supply unlocks. |
| Niger Delta Power Holding Company | Letter of support2 September 2026 | Support in principle and indicative pricing, issued in response to SEAP's request on a minimum of 200 MW, for gas supply to unlock stranded National Integrated Power Project capacity. |
| IPMAN North-West Zone | Letter of request7 April 2026 | Over 10,000 active retail stations across seven states, requesting grid-tied solar and storage as a service, EV charging and swap at member stations, solar cold rooms and mini logistics hubs for smallholder farmers, and electric heavy transport along the northern corridors. |
| Nasarawa State Government | Strategic paper and engagement | The State investment agency reviewed SEAP against its own public-private partnership framework, and the State has welcomed the minimum 5 MW per LGA proposal alongside a joint action plan on clean cooking, e-mobility and industrial power. |
| Imo State Government | Engagement | Working with SEAP and UNDP on clean cooking, including the State's commitment to secure gas from in-state producers for household supply. |
| Electric Mobility Promoters Association of Nigeria | Confirmed participation | Support offered on demand aggregation, member awareness and driver adoption for the FCT charging and battery-swap programme. |
The value chain
Every link has a partner.
The reason previous Nigerian energy investments have not produced reliable, affordable power is that a weakness in any single link reduces the bankability of the whole chain. SEAP's answer was to secure a partner for each one before asking anybody to finance it.
Supply and shipping
Held in-house: an NMDPRA Natural Gas Wholesale Licence for 200 MMscf/d and a Shipper's Licence, with a letter of support from NNPC Gas Marketing Limited for gas supply across all 774 Local Government Areas.
Stranded capacity
Active engagement with NDPHC to fuel National Integrated Power Project plants whose capacity stands idle, backed by a letter of support and indicative pricing.
System operation
Collaboration with NISO on the injection and transfer studies that determine how the unlocked power reaches the franchise.
Five Phase 1 DisCos
Executed agreements with five distribution companies, with franchise negotiations ongoing and target networks being identified from shared network and injection-substation data.
Manufactured in Nigeria
CCK Electric's Sagamu factory supplies transformers, auto-reclosers, distribution cabinets, conductors and smart meters — over thirty categories, made locally.
Supply and EPC
LONGi under an executed memorandum for photovoltaic and battery energy storage supply, with solar farm engineering, construction and operations.
Network O&M
EXNEB and Medhaj on franchise operations, transmission and distribution rehabilitation and power-system engineering, with United Capital Consultants engaged alongside them.
Revenue assurance
Advanced metering and meter data management specified with an international AMI partner, on the principle that no customer is billed on an estimate.
Technology and standards
Patented LPCNG and LPCBG cylinder technology from SEAP's international technology partners, in daily commercial service in more than fourteen countries, with a SON and NMDPRA certification roadmap underway.
Vehicles and operators
Manufacturing through CCK Electric, vehicle supply under an executed purchase commitment, and the tricycle owners' and operators' associations contracted as the route to the riders themselves.
Forecourts nationwide
A framework agreement with IPMAN across eight states for charging, battery swap and cylinder depots at member filling stations.
Governments and agencies
The Nigeria Governors' Forum, ALGON, the RMRDC, UNDP on clean cooking, and State governments in Imo and Nasarawa.
The arc
How it was assembled.
Each step answered a question the next one depended on — whether the technology worked in ordinary homes, whether governments would carry it, whether the economics survived contact with a Nigerian road.
Federal pre-assessment mandate
NNPC awarded DASIL a contract to understudy the power value chain across seventeen states and identify the investment opportunities that need power and gas. Walking that chain state by state produced the finding the whole programme rests on: the opportunities are real and locatable, and they sit precisely where the network is weakest.
All 774 LGAs under agreement
The ALGON Collaboration Agreement was executed, establishing the per-LGA commitment, franchise rights within Local Government economic zones, and carbon credits accruing to the Councils.
Unveiled at the Presidential Villa
The programme was presented at the Presidential Villa to the Chairpersons of all 774 Local Government Areas.
Nigerian delegation to Thailand
Independent field validation with SEAP's international technology partners — cooking in real households, restaurants and schools on biogas and low-pressure compressed natural gas. Operating technology in daily commercial use, not a concept. The delegation comprised:
- Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources (Gas)
- Federal Ministry of Finance
- Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs
- Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN)
- Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) — the United Kingdom government's cooking-energy research programme
- Data Analytics & Solutions International, as Lead Implementer of SEAP
What the delegation recorded is the basis of SEAP's cooking figures: households cooking at about half the cost of LPG, 5 kg of gas lasting 15 to 17 days, on a cylinder that carries natural gas or biogas without modification. The mission also opened the SON and NMDPRA certification roadmap the programme now follows.
Electric tricycles in service
Five converted electric tricycles in daily commercial operation in Uyo since mid-2026, following earlier conversions in Kano and Abuja. Conversion takes two to three hours and cuts the rider's running cost by roughly half.
The survey database
181 Local Government Areas across 26 states surveyed with ALGON, identifying solid minerals, industrial-scale agro opportunities and e-mobility demand, LGA by LGA. Every franchise capital plan is built from it.
Clean cooking pilots being prepared
SEAP is engaged with UNDP and with the Imo State and Nasarawa State Governments on household proof-of-concept pilots for LPCNG cooking. Scope and household selection are under discussion; no pilot has yet been run.
Where it goes next
What institutional capital is being asked to do.
The rights, the licences, the partners and the demand evidence are in place. What remains is the work that turns a contracted programme into a financed one.
Agreements executed across every link of the chain, licences held, 181 LGAs surveyed, and conversion pilots operating on the road.
A six-LGA pilot carrying the first refilling and compression deployment alongside the franchise power build — cooking and electricity together in the same territories.
500 Local Government Areas by 2030, with an in-State cylinder factory bringing manufacturing, and the cost base that comes with it, inside Nigeria.
Project-preparation funding to reach financial close — detailed engineering and network studies, environmental and social safeguards, SON and NMDPRA certification, and the bankable financial model. Not concept funding.
Contact
Talk to the programme office.
Enquiries are handled directly by the office of the Chief Executive. Whether you are writing on behalf of a State, a Local Government, a financing institution or a delivery partner, the same address reaches us and the reply comes from the people doing the work.
Write to us
One address, three kinds of conversation.
Choosing the right subject line simply gets your message to the right desk faster. Everything arrives in the same inbox either way.
States & local governments
A defined per-LGA delivery commitment, a standing framework agreement covering all 774 Local Government Areas, and carbon revenue accruing to the Council. Tell us the State or LGA and what you need power for.
Write about a State or LGADevelopment finance & investors
Franchise-level economics, the survey-verified pipeline, the active generation and gas supply engagement, and measurable impact against energy poverty. Tell us your mandate and ticket size.
Request the investment briefDelivery & technology partners
Supply, EPC, operations and maintenance, and logistics across distribution networks, solar and storage, cylinders and battery swapping. Tell us your scope and where you have delivered it before.
Submit a capabilityThe programme office
Data Analytics & Solutions International Limited
Lead Implementer of the Sustainable Energy Access Projects (SEAP) Consortium.
- Office
- Flat 1, No. 9 Jobson Ewelaor Street
Jahi, Abuja, F.C.T., Nigeria - Registration
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What to include
- Who you are writing for. A State or Local Government, a financing institution, a technology or delivery partner, or a community.
- Where. The State, the Local Government Area or the corridor concerned. SEAP plans from surveyed demand, so the territory shapes every answer we can give.
- Which pillar. Power, clean cooking, electric mobility, productive use, or more than one — most of the useful conversations turn out to be more than one.
- What you need next. A meeting, a document, a site visit, or a decision from us. Saying so plainly gets it to you faster.