Group Pledges to Solve Energy Deficiency
By Correspondent
The 2016 Nigeria Energy Forum (NEF) is poised to bridge the energy deficit in Nigeria through sustainable renewable energy production.
Speaking at a news conference on the up-coming conference of the forum in Lagos, the Lead Innovator and Strategist of the forum, Mrs Olanrewaju Bamise, maintained that it was regrettable that only half of the Nigerian population of about 170 million people had access to power from the national grid.
She also said that about 90 percent of industrial consumers in Nigeria were generating their own power.
According to her, this infrastructure barrier is constraining economic growth and constitutes set back to achieving the nation’s target.
Bamise said that 2016 NEF would highlight opportunities for Nigeria to develop her abundant renewable energy sources, especially solar, which were capable of rapidly increasing rural electricity access at reduced cost.
She added that NEF would provide a high level forum for stakeholders in energy community to come together and discuss issues on energy access capability.
The lead innovator pointed out that there was also a huge gap between the academia and professionals in the energy sector in Nigeria.
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