Energy and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: The Way Forward
- Publisher:
- Energy, Sustainability and Society
- Publication Date:
- 1 February 2015
- Tags:
- Africa, Nigeria, Energy, Sustainable Development
Access to clean modern energy services is an enormous challenge facing the African continent because energy is fundamental for socioeconomic development and poverty eradication. Today, 60% to 70% of the Nigerian population does not have access to electricity. There is no doubt that the present power crisis afflicting Nigeria will persist unless the government diversifies the energy sources in domestic, commercial, and industrial sectors and adopts new available technologies to reduce energy wastages and to save cost. This review examines a set of energy policy interventions, which can make a major contribution to the sustainable economic, environmental, and social development of Africa's most populated country, Nigeria. Energy efficiency leads to important social benefits, such as reducing the energy bills for poor households. From an economic point of view, implementing the country's renewable energy target will have significant costs, but these can partly be offset by selling carbon credits according to the rules of the 'Clean Development Mechanism' agreed some 10 years ago, which will result in indirect health benefits. Nigeria could benefit from the targeted interventions that would reduce the local air pollution and help the country to tackle greenhouse gas emissions. Many factors that need to be considered and appropriately addressed in the shift to its sustainable energy future are examined in this article. These include a full exploitation and promotion of renewable energy resources, energy efficiency practices, as well as the application of energy conservation measures in various sectors such as in the construction of industrial, residential, and office buildings, in transportation, etc. posted here under creative commons license
Can Nigeria Tip Balance Towards Clean Energy?
- Dark Country to Lead in Lighting the World
- Energy Poverty, Household Poverty and Human Rights
- Invest in Renewable Energy, Research, Green Technology, FG Urged
- Investment in Energy Technology to Hit U.S.$400 Billion By 2030
- NAEE - How Buhari Can Solve Nigeria's Energy Challenges
- Exploring Alternative Energy Sources
- Energy Projects in Nigeria, Cameroon Get $5m Funding
- Energy Crisis Worsens - 'Only 5 of 23 Power Plants Functional'
- Renewable Energy - Solution to Nigeria's Energy Crisis
- What Chance a Nuclear Future in Nigeria?
- Nigeria, Others, Have World's Worst Energy Access - - Report
- Developing Nigeria's Renewable Energy Potential
- Renewable Energy - How Realistic Is Nigeria's Vision?
- Nigerians Turn to Renewable Energy As Solution to Power Crisis
Nigeria to Boost Energy Sector Reforms
- Power Sector Gets U.S.$1 Billion Boosts as Jonathan Turns Sod of Azura Ipp
- Jonathan Promised to Support Public-Private Partnership in Power Sector
- Vision for Sustained Prosperity in Nigeria
- Jonathan Flags-Off First Phase of U.S.$1 Billion Azura-Edo Power Plant
- Jonathan Flags-Off U.S.$1 Billion Azura Edo Power Project
- Jonathan to Launch Edo Power Project
- Jonathan to Kick Off U.S.$1 Billion Azura-Edo Power Plant
- U.S.$1 Billion Azura-Edo Power Plant Kicks Off
- Jonathan in Benin, Reiterates Commitment to Stable Power
- Jonathan's Edo Visit - Soldiers Avert Clash Between PDP/APC Youths in Edo
- Fracas as Jonathan Visits Edo
- American Capital Energy & Infrastructure's Azura-Edo Power Project Receives $50 Million Financing Commitment From Opic
'No Lights, No Fuel' for Africa's Oil Giant
- Energy Crisis Worsens - 'Only 5 of 23 Power Plants Functional'
- Oil Marketers, Govt Agree to Restore Fuel Supply
- Country Plunges Into Darkness
- Fuel Scarcity Bites
- Capital Oil Boss, Ifeanyi Ubah, Pledges to Help End Fuel Scarcity
- Deregulation 'Ll End Fuel Scarcity - LCCI
- Unpaid Salaries - NLC Backs Strike in States
- Fuel Scarcity, Workers' Strike, Blackout - Jonathan Handing Over Nation in Crisis - APC
- Fuel Scarcity - NLC Threatens Nationwide Strike
- Telecom Operators to Shut Network Over Fuel Crisis
- Fuel Scarcity - Capital Oil Breaks Ranks, to Release 70 Million Litres
- Fuel Scarcity - NLC Threatens to Direct Workers to Stay At Home
- Strike Cripples Activities Nationwide
- Fuel Crisis May Shut Down Phones, MTN Warns
- Fuel Crisis - Depots "Dry" Nationwide - PENGASSAN
- PIB - RIP - 'Rest in Pieces
- Fuel Scarcity - Lagos Manufacturers Want Buhari to Deregulate Petroleum Sector
- Fuel Subsidy Reforms - Moving From Anger to Cooperation
- Jonathan's Government Is Leaving Behind Stampedes and Street Fighting As Fuel Scarcity Deepens
- Fuel Crisis - Okonjo-Iweala Accuses Oil Marketers of Blackmail
- Okonjo-Iweala Defends Record on Debt, Blasts Oil Marketers for 'Blackmail'
- Petrol Subsidy Will Bankrupt the Country - Think Tank
- Senate Summons Okonjo-Iweala, Diezani Over Fuel Scarcity
- When Oil Workers Hold the Nation Hostage
- 'As Petroleum Minister, Diezani Never Visited Kaduna Refinery Once'
- Fuel Scarcity - No End in Sight As Marketers Insist On N159bn
