Worried by the need to address the consequences of climate change across the country, politicians, corporate organisation, religious bodies, trade groups among others have been urged to incorporate the distribution of renewable energy solution devices in their various efforts at empowering individuals and small scale business enterprises.
The country director, NexGen Energy, Mrs Ezinne Ibe made the appeal while explaining to journalist the importance of embracing renewable sources of power which she described as the future of power solution.
According to Ibe, developing countries and advanced economies of the world have already embraced alternative solutions to addressing their power needs and as a good way of eradicating the negative health and environmental hazards associated with the use of fossil fuels.
She noted that, using renewable energy is not as expensive as many people thinks and aside from the health and environmental friendliness of renewable energy, her organisation, in collaboration with international partners have provided energy solutions and devices that could be used to empower barbers, hair stylists, tailors, artisans and other small scale entrepreneurs with minimal energy requirements.
She noted that if such items complement other things distributed to empower small businesses, the challenges of unemployment will be greatly addressed and more businesses will survive longer.
Noting that adequate awareness on renewable energy solution has not been created in Nigeria, Ibe reasoned that the renewable energy solution devices could also be distributed by federal and state lawmakers that have been empowering their constituents with some items, adding that the devices in the long run were more cost effective, if compared with other electricity generating devices that are not environmentally friendly.
She said, “It is energy for the future. If you embrace it now, you have only repositioned yourself for a better tomorrow. Global warming is affecting the environment and that is why the use of devices or equipment that consumes fossil fuel such as diesel, petrol, and the likes, are being phased out. Why should we embrace what is being phased off?
“It has been found out overtime that whatever happens in the developed countries, trickles down to us in Africa. Now, Africa is no longer in a position of where it has been in the past. Africa is now rising.
Read Also: Politicians advised against unguarded utterances
“So, if Africa is now rising, we should embrace things that are already positioned for the future, and one of them is renewable energy solution options, which is what we offer in NexGen Energy. We are partnering with our clients to make sure that they are aligned and positioned for whatever the future has to offer.”
Commending the government for the efforts at openibg the doors for alternative power sources through the private sector, Ibe stated that there is still room for improvement.
“Whatever the government has been doing presently in Nigeria, more can still be done with the support of the private sector. Every community keeps evolving. So, what worked yesterday or what is adequate today may not be adequate tomorrow. So, whatever the government is doing, I will advise that we should not rest of their oars, even as the private sector.
“All over the world, government is partnering with private sector to move things forward. This company was appointed recently as a mini-grid solution provider or rural electrification project. It is because the government has realised that the work is massive and huge.
“There are potential things that could be tapped from the private sector, which is all about business. The private sector can go as far as possible to get things done. We have three foreign technical partners that have presence all over the globe. We have direct contacts with our manufacturers, and suppliers, and we have been able to tell them the peculiarities of the Nigerian market.
“We have low voltage in Nigeria, which may not be applicable elsewhere. From the first set of inverters that we got and offered to our clients, we noticed a couple of things, which we had to tell our suppliers that situations are different in Nigeria.
“If you do it the way you have been doing it for the developed countries, it would not work here. This is the intelligence we found on the ground. Based on research, feedback and information we got from our clients, we were able to tell them the better ways to do it and it keeps getting better by the day.”
The post Experts urge politicians, religious bodies, to adopt renewable energy appeared first on The Nation Nigeria.
from The Nation Nigeria https://ift.tt/2o9c2tq
via IFTTT
