We design and deploy hybrid renewable energy systems that bring affordable, reliable power to rural communities across Nigeria, while protecting the environment.
Nigeria carries the world's largest electricity access gap. The numbers make the case for distributed renewables — explore the full data and analysis.
"Energy access is the foundation of opportunity."
Safe Earth Consults Limited is a renewable energy and environmental services company committed to accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy future.
We specialise in decentralised, distributed hybrid renewable energy systems (DHRES) — clean, affordable solutions engineered to fit the technical, economic, environmental, and social realities of each community we serve.
Our goal is to become a leading supplier of renewable energy and sustainable environmental services, empowering rural communities in Nigeria and beyond with innovative, cost-effective energy technologies.
Work with us →Six connected capabilities that take a project from first assessment to lasting impact. Tap any one to see what it covers.
Solar-led hybrid systems engineered for reliability where the grid doesn't reach. We size and specify each system to match local demand and resources.
End-to-end electrification for off-grid communities — bringing power to homes, schools, businesses, and health centres that have long gone without.
Rigorous environmental impact assessment and advisory, so every project advances responsibly and in line with regulation.
Feasibility, scientific and water-systems expertise to support energy and engineering projects.
Sourcing, delivering and maintaining the equipment that keeps renewable energy systems running.
Applied research into better energy solutions, carried out with academic partners.
We map demand, solar and resource availability, and the social and environmental context before a single panel is specified.
01assess.site()Hybrid systems are sized and specified to match demand, resources and budget — with job and impact figures modelled up front.
02design.system()We deliver, commission and support the system through its lifetime — so the power stays on long after handover.
03deploy.sustain()What we are building toward, and how we get there.
To become a leading provider of renewable energy solutions and sustainable environmental services — empowering rural communities in Nigeria and beyond with clean, affordable, and innovative energy.
To deploy hybrid renewable energy systems, advance rural electrification, and promote eco-friendly solutions that enhance quality of life and drive economic development.
Three things set our work apart — and each one is backed by evidence, not slogans.
Our methods come from peer-reviewed research — including work published with IEEE — so every system is sized on evidence, not guesswork.
We design for the communities the grid forgot, with tariffs and operator training that keep the power on long after handover.
From assessment and environmental compliance to deployment and maintenance — one accountable partner across the whole project.
Our thinking is peer-reviewed and presented on international platforms.
“Employment Factors in the Energy Transition: Comparative Study of Three Regions” — presented at the 9th International Conference on Environment Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA 2025) and published by IEEE.
Iyowuna Winston Gobo and co-authors · EFEA 2025 Read our publications →
Reliable power changes what a rural clinic can do — from refrigerating vaccines to running diagnostics after dark. We look at how distributed renewable energy is reshaping access to health care across underserved communities.
Talk to us about this →Safe Earth Consults is actively seeking strategic partnerships to bring reliable, affordable power to more rural communities.
To scale rural electrification projects.
To integrate advanced clean energy solutions.
For innovation and knowledge-sharing.
To implement large-scale sustainable energy projects.
Short answers to what communities, funders and partners ask us most.
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Nigeria carries the world's largest electricity access gap. These figures — drawn from the World Bank, ESMAP, and peer-reviewed research — show why decentralised hybrid renewables matter, and where the need is greatest.
Nigeria's electricity access climbed from about 55% in 2020 to 61% in 2023. Real progress, but population growth keeps pace with new connections, so the absolute number of people in the dark has barely moved.
At current trends, universal access by 2030 (SDG 7) is out of reach without a dramatic acceleration — exactly the gap decentralised solutions are built to close.
Cities enjoy near-universal supply, but in rural areas fewer than a third of people are connected — and roughly 73% live entirely off the grid. This is where the access gap concentrates.
Extending the central grid to scattered, low-density communities is rarely economic. Distributed hybrid systems reach these households directly, at the right scale.
Across Sub-Saharan Africa, close to 60% of health care facilities lack reliable electricity. Without it, vaccines spoil, deliveries happen by lantern, and diagnostic equipment sits idle.
Electrifying a rural clinic with a solar-hybrid system is one of the highest-impact uses of distributed energy there is — the through-line of our work in rural Nigeria.
Nearly six in ten clinics and hospitals operate without dependable electricity — directly limiting the care they can provide.
Nigeria's central grid delivers only a fraction of its installed capacity, leaving even connected households with frequent blackouts. Meanwhile the country receives 3.5–7.0 kWh of solar energy per square metre every day.
That mismatch is the case for decentralised, solar-led hybrid systems: reliable local power that doesn't wait on a strained national grid.
Solar resource: 3.5–7.0 kWh/m²/day — among the best on the continent.
Each point is a community we're powering with distributed hybrid renewable systems. Filter by status, browse the list, or click a marker — the map flies to each site and the totals update live.
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Reliable clean energy ripples outward — into health, education, livelihoods and the climate. This is what our work delivers on the ground.
World Bank / ESMAP, Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report 2025 (covering 2023 data) · World Bank development indicators, access to electricity · Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Illuminating Nigeria (2024) · Health and Human Rights Journal, Energizing Health (2025) · Peer-reviewed research on off-grid systems in rural Nigeria. Figures are rounded; some comparisons combine the most recent available year per source.
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Real projects delivering clean, reliable power to communities across Nigeria.
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StatusNews, projects and milestones from our work powering rural communities across Nigeria.
Reliable power changes what a rural clinic can do — from refrigerating vaccines to running diagnostics after dark.
Read more →A short summary of the project — location, capacity, and the households and businesses now connected.
Read more →A short summary of the partnership and what it means for expanding clean energy access.
Read more →A short summary of the article exploring reliability, cost, and environmental benefits.
Read more →Explore the share of households with electricity in every Nigerian state, filter by access level and zone, and see what has changed since 2018.
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Explore electricity access across Nigeria in three steps.
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Number of states: 37
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ICF. The DHS Program STATcompiler. Indicator: Households with electricity. Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys 2018 and 2023–24 (National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ICF). https://www.statcompiler.com. Accessed 7 October 2026.
National picture, 2023–24: 55.2% of households have electricity; 79.8% in urban areas and 29.9% in rural areas.
About these figures. They are household survey estimates from the Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys of 2018 and 2023–24 (National Population Commission and ICF), obtained from The DHS Program. State figures carry sampling error, so small differences between states or years should not be over-read. They measure households, so they differ from the World Bank's population-based figure quoted elsewhere on this site. These are not Safe Earth Consults project locations.
For settlement-level mini-grid planning data, see the Nigeria SE4ALL mini-grid explorer.
These figures are pulled directly from the World Bank Open Data API each time this page loads — always the most current published data, not a static snapshot.
Share of Nigeria's population with and without access to electricity — the gap distributed renewables exist to close. Toggle the view or hover a segment for detail.