Press Release IV May 15, 2026
YEAC’S SOLAR MINI-GRID AMONG FIRST THREE IN NIGERIA TO COMPLETE WORLD BANK-FUNDED PBG UNDER DARES VIA NXT GRID NIGERIA LTD
The Youths and Environmental ADVOCACY CENTRE (YEAC) has been listed among the first three organizations in Nigeria’s solar mini-grid sector to complete the full World Bank Performance-Based Grant (PBG) under the Nigeria Distributed Access through Renewable Energy Scale-up (DARES), via its contractor, NXT GRID Nigeria and Netherlands.
Details of this development were publicly shared by NXT GRID Netherlands and Nigeria on Friday, May 15, 2026, and are contained in a 3-page press release dated May 8, 2026, reproduced below.
The Executive Director of YEAC-Nigeria, Dr. Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface, who also serves as the Director of the Solar Mini-Grid and Renewable Energy-focused YEAC Community Energy and Development (YEAC-CEAD), thanked the UK office of the organisation, the Youths and Environmental Advocacy Centre (YEAC-UK), its Country Director Helena Farstad, and the board members for supporting and funding YEAC’s work on the solar mini-grid in Nigeria's Niger Delta region.
Dr. Fyneface also thanked the team in Nigeria and all other individuals and organisations that have supported, funded and encouraged him and the organisation, one way or the other, leading to these achievements and milestones, adding that more collaborations, support and funding are needed for YEAC to do more for the people and society at large.
He further noted that the support helped turn an idea he conceived on November 25, 2019 under hostage—to power communities without electricity (CWE) in the Niger Delta as part of measures to contribute to the fight against pipeline vandalism, crude oil theft, artisanal refineries, environmental pollution and youth unemployment through alternative livelihood opportunities powered by clean energy—into reality, with expansion to at least 9 more communities now underway beyond Umuolu, Ndokwa East LGA, Delta State.
Signed,
Dr. Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface,
Executive Director, YEAC-Nigeria
May 15, 2026.
