Energy is the mainstay of Nigeria
The Nigerian government has developed the National Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policy with the accompanying Vision 30:30:30 which aims at achieving 30,000MW of electricity by the year 2030 with renewable energy contributing 30 per cent of the energy mix.
It is a welcome target that will see Nigeria undergo a renewable energy transformation. However, there are certain strategies that the government must adopt if the renewable energy part of this wonderful vision must become a reality.
Firstly, the government should be able to leverage on community partnerships and ownership of renewable energy projects. Solar energy projects for instance usually need minor cleaning a couple of times in a year if the installation is to work at largest capacity. This periodic cleaning will not cost the host community anything to carry out.
However, the community will only organise adequately for the cleaning if they have a sense of ownership of the project. Apart from cleaning, they are other minor maintenance activities of renewable energy projects that the host community should not leave for the government alone.
Majority of the solar streetlights and solar boreholes across the federation today are not functional because thieves and vandals have made away with certain vital components of the installations. These thieves and vandals did not fall from space.
Solar power users continues to be happy even when Electricity consumers at the Ikeja axis of Lagos have expressed their anger after their service provider, Ikeja Electric Plc, announced a disruption of service between March 6 and April 4.
In a statement on Friday, the company said the power outage would affect residents of Ojodu, Magodo, Alausa, Oke Afa, Bolorunpelu, Egbe, Igando, Shasha, and Ipaja.
Other areas include Alimosho, Agege, Abesan, Ayetoro, Abule Taylor, Ogba, Ifako, Shomolu, Gbagada, Oworonshoki, Ogudu, Isheri Olowora, Berger, Anthony, Otta, and environs.
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This blog post was published in February of 2014. Rings true three years later
This article tells a story that we continue to hear in 2014. If you take time to look at the article you will notice that power generation at the time of the article was was a little over 3000 MW. Today more than $40 billion later it hovers between 2000 and 4000 MW. Earlier in January it fell to 1600 MW.
It is sad that we have a generation of Nigerians who have never experienced steady electricity.
There were always good reasons given for power failure. When I was growing up, it was Kainji Dam. The water levels were too low to generate power, then the story changed. It became poor maintenance. The generating equipment had not been updated or properly maintained. So a few of them had to be taken offline for repairs. The government of the time wanted to be praised for servicing the equipment and appropriated huge sums of money.
The promises continued. The old coal fired plants were no longer part of the discussion. The new craze were gas fired power plants. While they were being constructed, the new culprit were people who stole the power transmission lines, or the Niger Delta militants who stopped the flow of gas.
The story changed to gas prices were too low and the Multi-Nationals preferred to sell the gas to outside markets for a higher price. President GEJ fixed that with a new pricing regime and gas prices went up.
Today, it is sabotage of one gas feed line at multiple points. Which genius plans to have one gas line feed multiple power generating stations? In a country with a history of sabotage, what is plan B and plan C? Does it make you wonder if these excuses are genuine or just one more way to make people feel that someone else is responsible for the suffering they endure?
I am sure you each remember a story you heard to justify blackouts in Nigeria. Share them please.
In a country were the majority believe that there are evil doers lurking and waiting to do them in, it is no surprise that those that rule have jumped on the band wagon.
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