caprini1:
Mine is just 400k and carries my tv ,decoder,home theatre ,3 rechargeable fans and all the energy saving bulbs in my house....I use PHCN (when I see them) and Generator for my fridge and other bigger appliances....I installed it,basically not to pay multichoice and still buy fuel to watch my football.

TonySpike:


Bro, I see your opposition to this method is mainly based on the parameters of economics and science. Can you please shed more light on this for my sake? I need some education on your sincere opinion and I'm eager to hear back from you...

EMANY01:


Right.....you apc folks are so smart you will basically write the book in the field of micro power generation and distribution in no less a place that in developing africa.
The more I think about it I have visions of a nobel price of some such award going to the buhari government for inovation in power infrastructure development in developing countries.

My now obviously inadequate education in engineering lead me to believe that in a hundred and thirty years of reserch , development,management experience and inovation in the field of electrical power generation,transmission and distribution, there is a valid reason that the disteibuted power infrastructure models have be only cousarily examined and discarded repeatedly.

The laws of physics not to mention economics will slap the fantasy illusions from your eyes soon enough all the propagandar defence in the world will not even come close to being enough.

OrlandoOwoh:

That Sambo said it makes it the truth? Last week the Minister of Power said the MW has dropped to 2800.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said that the state’s Independent Power Plants, has reduced the government’s energy cost by 40 per cent.

Fashola spoke on Tuesday at the opening ceremony of the three-day 7th Lagos State Climate Change Summit, with the theme: ‘Seven years of climate change governance in Lagos State: Celebrating success stories, reviewing challenges and setting future agenda.’

The state government recently inaugurated the 8.5 megawatts Peninsula integrated power project, which is the fifth of such IPPs built in the last five years.

The governor said, “In the area of energy conservation, our independent power plants have led to the reduction of power costs in the running of critical public utilities such as schools, hospitals, waterworks and police stations by close to 40 per cent.

“This is not the end of the journey; we have used cleaner fuel, mainly gas, and this has led to the decommissioning of 400 generators and an annual sustainable carbon dioxide emission reduction, leading to a cleaner and greener environment in our state.”

The governor noted that the state had also invested in solar power, which currently serves about 127 public schools and 11 primary health care centres.

He said the state had also made giant strides in the area of waste management.

“Waste management in Lagos is much more improved and I am glad that we have lost the unenviable status of being the dirtiest city in the world and Lagos has become the centre of study on how to manage waste,” he said.

The Commissioner for the Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, said when the summit began in 2009, the goal was to use the platform as a principal vehicle not only for drawing public attention to the challenges that climate change posed to humans, but also to explore all available mitigation and adaptation options.

“This is understandable given that Lagos State with its topography, vast coast line and burgeoning population is most vulnerable to the vagaries of climate change,” he said.

Copyright PUNCH.

teeowl:


please which company did you use?

gists:


I have a similar hypothesis and I have not seen why it should not work. I stated this on another thread a few days ago.

Gucciboss:
What template are they talking about? The last time I checked the Lagos state propagandists have only less than 50 MW to their credit for over six years.
thenationonlineng.net/new/power-lasg-generates-47-5mw-in-six-years/

teeowl:


It cost 3 - 5 million naira for a fully functional solar power sytem for a bungalow. so many nigerians cant afford that.

EMANY01:


If you are mathemathically oriented and know probabilities not to mention human attitudes, consider and then define the functional relationships between the interacting variables :a,b,x,yt and qt
Where
a=increased number of micro power stations
b =corresponding increase in number on trucks required to transport the gas to the micro stations
x= weighted factor of the increase in geographical distance and spread between the micro stations and the gas source
yt=weighted factor of ( the reduction) of human safety effectiveness over time giving with the attendant geometrical increase in the number of trucks on the roads all over nigeria
qt=probability of a major incident involving any number of the now thousands of trucks on the road being hazardous to life.

If you are half as smart as you believe you are (I MAKE NO JUDGEMENTS ON YOUR INTELLIGIENCE OR LACK OF IT MIND YOU) , all sorts of alarm bells would be ringing in your head by now.

njays24:
How did akwa ibom and Niger states come about their own power,i hear they have steady light in those states,or did they also invest in the microgrid?

Anyi3:


But ENRON na fake company na

The AES Barge, the first Independent Power Project in Nigeria was formed in 1999 as a result of a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) between the Lagos State Government and Enron for purchase of electricity. The PPA was split into three (3) phases;

Phase 1: was for three barge-mounted electricity generating units, having an aggregate nominal capacity of 90MW

Phase II: was the design, construction and, operation of a simple cycle electricity generating facility with a nominal capacity of 548 MW

Phase III: was another set of barge-mounted electricity generating units with an aggregate nominal capacity of 180MW.

Phase IV: was never fully materialised hence the project proceeded with only Phases I and III with their barges located at Egbin near Ikorodu.

Based on the the legal and regulatory regime at that time, the agreement was for LASG to buy power from Enron which would be distributed by NEPA in addition to any electricity not generated by the barges. The Purchased Power was to be distributed to Ikeja, Oshodi, Victoria Island, Marina, Lekki and Apapa. The plant commenced operations in June 2001 with a total aggregate capacity of 270 MW which is currently being injected into the national grid.


http://www.lseb.gov.ng/content/aes-barge

caprini1:
when u get to Alaba int,l market ,ask where they sell solar panels...from there you explain the appliances you want to use ,they will install according to the appliances u want .batteries and inverter inclusive....with warranty ,and you pay after installation and testing.....

aresa:

The first order of business for the incoming administration is to get rid of FG's power transmission monopoly.

Invest in generation and handing over their generated electricity to the FG's obsolete and worthless transmission grid and get back less than what they fed into it makes zero economic sense.

They should allow the DISCOs generate and transmit within their area of operation. The DISCOs are pretty much redundant and underutilized. Of what use are DISCOs with little or nothing to offer their customers in form of electricity?..

Reference:


But what will power these numerous plants: fuel or gas. Fuel means a cobweb of pipelines, the eldorado of vandals, if it is gas then the risk around residential areas is better imagined. Trucking means gridlock and inefficiency especially when a plant may be drinking a truck an hour. There is a reason modern economies scale up. Efficiency rises with scale. How ever I agree that we can't start seeking efficiency.

gists:

Thank you jare my broda. We don't really need this much dependence on the national grid. Although I will not be too eager to say it should be demolished out-rightly. I think Nigeria is basically covered by the spread of the various DISCOs. If there is any law preventing the DISCOs from generating power for there jurisdictions, such laws should be reviewed and relaxed. Of what benefit is a DISCO that doesn't get power to distribute to its customers? If we let the DISCOs generate a percentage of the power demand from their localities and augment with whatever they get from the national grid, we would have solved over 60% of our electricity problem without having to wait for another decade to fix the national grid.

Mynd44:

Good question.
As of today, Nigeria depends on imported petroleum products right? How does those products get to the hinterland from the ports on the coast?

Reference:

But what will power these numerous plants: fuel or gas. Fuel means a cobweb of pipelines, the eldorado of vandals, if it is gas then the risk around residential areas is better imagined. Trucking means gridlock and inefficiency especially when a plant may be drinking a truck an hour. There is a reason modern economies scale up. Efficiency rises with scale. How ever I agree that we can't start seeking efficiency.

aresa:



We don't need power plants in the hinterlands, we just need them in central locations with transmission cables (Underground cable like they are doing in Lagos) to the hinterlands..

aresa:
We don't need power plants in the hinterlands, we just need them in central locations with transmission cables (Underground cable like they are doing in Lagos) to the hinterlands..

Sincere9gerian:
So they'r'e still "eyeing"? I thought they said they had a plan already? I thought they said they had it all figured out already?

Only God knows how long it will take them to complete this "eyeing" phase. I hope we're not in for a 4-year "eyeing" govt?

Na wa for this one chance party led by one chance general with his "eyeing" lieutenants.

Mynd44:

We don't need those. What stops Enugu from generating power from coal?

What stops the North from setting up solar farms and wind farms?

Gas can always be transported for small plants without pipelines.

Generate power where you need the power. We don't need those. What stops Enugu from generating power from coal? What stops the North from setting up solar farms and wind farms? Gas can always be transported for small plants without pipelines.

Develop powers where you need the power. No point distributing again.

989900:


The above ^^ is part of "thinking outside the box", the UK generates almost 70% of his huge power demands from coal.

Qatar is building a 2.73MW plant @$4b (remember to let us ask OBJ how far . . . the $16b na), to be powered by tidal-waves and desalinated water (with special permission from Oba Akiolu, dem get lagoon pass us?).

Palm oil kernels (ekuro/epo pupa) and some other bio-fuels, are being used in Uganda, Burundi, Malaysia, Singapore, the UK, Brazil and some other countries to generate power.

Mynd44:

We don't need those. What stops Enugu from generating power from coal?

What stops the North from setting up solar farms and wind farms?

Gas can always be transported for small plants without pipelines.

Generate power where you need the power. We don't need those. What stops Enugu from generating power from coal? What stops the North from setting up solar farms and wind farms? Gas can always be transported for small plants without pipelines.

Develop powers where you need the power. No point distributing again.

989900:


The above ^^ is part of "thinking outside the box", the UK generates almost 70% of his huge power demands from coal.

Qatar is building a 2.73MW plant @$4b (remember to let us ask OBJ how far . . . the $16b na), to be powered by tidal-waves and desalinated water (with special permission from Oba Akiolu, dem get lagoon pass us?).

Palm oil kernels (ekuro/epo pupa) and some other bio-fuels, are being used in Uganda, Burundi, Malaysia, Singapore, the UK, Brazil and some other countries to generate power.

gists:

But there is no where in the world where distribution is phased out.
Where do we draw the line? State level, LGAs, LCDA, Street? There is need to generate power in a central location within a region and distribute within that region. Except you are advocating everybody should generate their own electricity (which is pretty much what we have now with the numerous noisy i-pass-my-neighbours) there is no way you can eliminate distribution.
You are right, there is nothing stopping enugu from generating from coal and kano from solar. But every street in enugu cannot have a coal power plant! That is why there should be a central location in enugu where the coal plant will be installed and DISTRIBUTED across the state.

But I disagree with the idea of transporting gas in bottles to power plant. The logistics/efficiency/risk is just not worth it. Run a pipe to a central place like it is being done by some now. Generate the electricity and again DISTRIBUTE across the state or jurisdiction (if we are using discos that cut across a number of states)

Mynd44:

The power from tidal waves is not a lagoon thing, it is basically using the movement of water from the beach

Mynd44:

You still don't get it. Mini-grids is all about what you have said too. You know what area your plant will be serving, and you build transmission lines in that area alone.

So if one plant in Enugu can generate enough power to power the whole state, fine. But generating power in Kaduna and transporting it to Abeokuta is a huge waste of resources because of the transmission. The distance from the point of generation to the point of usage is reduced

989900:


That was meant for the Oba and his comments. My drift basically is, there are many options to explore and implement if we are serious about doing something; à la there is more than one way to skin a cat.

TonySpike:


In addition to what you have said, these power plants can be integrated into the national grid later on when it becomes certain that they have excess capacity to extend their services to neighbouring states!