OBAGADAFFI:


Not true coal is the main source of power in US, do your research.

fiizznation:
It was a slip of the thumb. My mistakes there. Thanks for the correction.

989900B:


Diversification and elimination are two different things.

fiizznation:
What is he diversifying in the energy sector? I think it will be more better if we concentrate on the gas and hydro we are using today instead of compiling the entire problems of the energy sector by jumping into what we don't have the money to do neither can we maintain it. Do you think "nuclear energy" is a child play? I don't want to believe that fashola dont know what renewable energy entails. You guys think wind, tidal, solar and biomass energy are ABC. [/i]

tit:
Leave the niger delta oil for them.
the thing don nearly finished sef.


if you want light, pay the niger delta for the gas.
if not, na darkness ooo

spymaster:

On the issue of Metering, the FG through the NERC must stop the exploitation of consumers by the fraudulent DISCOs. If not that it will hurt investors confidence, I would have suggested their licenses be revoked. They lack the technical and financial competences to run electricity distribution. The DISCOs were sold to friends and cronies who knew next to nothing about power generation.

Raji Fashola goofed by allowing them to increase tariff without appropriate metering. What he should have done is to give the DISCOs six months to meter consumers. After six months, un- metered consumers should not pay more than N2000 irrespective of energy consumed. If they are not metered after another six months, then they should not pay any bill till they are metered. A DISCO that can achieve 80% consumer metering can then be allowed to increase its tariff. I bet you, the DISCOs will rush and start installing meters. But now that the electricity tariff has been increased, they have no incentive or motivation to meter consumers again.

Ovamboland:
Although dirty, coal is a viable option as it's abundant in Nigeria. We cannot be the conscience of the world on clean energy in the midst of so much suffering and stunted growth. Since the government has demonstrated that it cannot guarantee the security of gas supply it's a no brainier to go the coal route while monitoring developments in the renewable energy technology for possible adoption. The employment coal production will generate cannot be ignored. Those countries championing clean energy today have full employment and still burn huge tonnage of coal till today while discouraging us from using it.

We can never generate the same number of employment to produce gas compared to coal of same energy content

989900B:


China, the US and UK all burn coal like tomorrow . . . these are countries that our use of coal can never be up to 3% of theirs, even if we use coal alone to power the whole of Nigeria!

fiizznation:
Whatever the case might be, solar can never be as efficient as a power plant that utilizes gas

Babacele:
a scientific mind never say never hence the innovations you see in the world and the possibilities of more awesome innovations ...

OBAGADAFFI:
@op coal is the largest source of energy.
From US to China more than 40 percent of their electricity energy come from coal.

Nigeria should forget this [b]hydrocarbon [/b]and focus on coal.

Xapio:
Is coal not hydrocarbon?

OBAGADAFFI:


I know coal is part of hydrocarbon.

The hydrocarbon i am talk about is petroleum and natural gas.

Xapio:
Is coal not hydrocarbon?

barbiesparkz2:


Coal is pure carbon.
Though in its raw state it has impurities, of which hydrogen may be a part.

barbiesparkz2:


Coal is pure carbon.
Though in its raw state it has impurities, of which hydrogen may be a part.

Xapio:
coal is pure carbon, then it has impurities which contains hydrogen.. What then is hydrocarbon?

Xapio:
coal is pure carbon, then it has impurities which contains hydrogen.. What then is hydrocarbon?

aresa:



Portugal for 3 days or more running powdered the whole of Portugal with renewable energy from windmill to solar and this one here is spewing ignorant nonsense.

How are industrial are you more than Portugal and Germany the largest economy in Europe that powdered the whole of Germany last week with renewable energy and not a drop of oil or gas?

Oil and gas is fast becoming a thing of the past and only foolish and irresponsible countries invests in fosil power plants these days.

Instead of spending billions of dollars on fosil power plants, we should be erecting windmills, letting rhe discos start installing roof top solar panels to supply uninterrupted power supply and charge same way they charge now. We wont even need transmission lines or other needless investments.

They should even be subsidizing solar installation with all the billions There are wasting on power plants.

There are too many easy way out, our leaders are just too slow and old in their thinking.


With solar and wind or other forms of renewable energy, norhing major breaks down and whatever is fixable in no time ans cheaply

Standing5:
It can india gets solar at less than N20 per kw-h, so it cheap enoug for us to adopt.

OBAGADAFFI:
@op coal is the largest source of energy.
From US to China more than 40 percent of their electricity energy come from coal.

Nigeria should forget this hydrocarbon and focus on coal.

OrlandoOwoh:

For me, all the parts of the country should have their power plants powered by a source of energy in their respective localities. In the South East, power should be generated by coal, which is in abundance in Enugu. In the South South, it should be generated by gas. In the South West, it should be generated by hydro or sun. In the north it should be generated by hydro, wind and/or solar.

It doesn't make sense for there to be a total black out in the country because the water in dams is low or because gas pipelines have been blown up.

fiizznation:
You see my friend wind and solar are very expensive to maintain. Besides, erecting windmills that will generate the amount of power/megawatts Nigerians need will likely run into billions of dollars. Aside from the pollution and environmental degradation cause by fossil fuels/fossil power plants, it still remains our best option for power generation for the meantime. Why? Well fossil power plants have the capacity to generate huge amount of electricity in just one single place, but the average windmill or your solar can't do this. I don't think we should also ignore the efficiency of fossil power plants and its cost effectiveness.

I don't even think any power minister in Nigeria will ever ignore fossil power plants and venture into renewable energy when we have gas in abundance

mikolo80:
first of all that's not how to talk in public.
how many gigawatts did it run.
how much did it cost relative to thermal. 10 times from my research.
it's easy to point fingers and make suggestions.
Abi you think say dem go give you the whole budget plus recurrent just to put up a 1 GW solar or wind farm. analyse every before you talk in publc. not everyone here is writing waec or from celebrity section

The statement reiterated federal government’s commitment in diversifying its energy mix beyond traditional sources of gas, oil and Hydro to include nuclear and other renewable sources like solar, biomass and wind.
http://pulse.ng/local/babatunde-fashola-fg-to-diversify-electricity-generation-using-nuclear-energy-id4815754.html