Federal government yesterday raised the hope of Nigerians on the possibility of surpassing the projected national target of 6,000MW of electricity generation by December saying it is partnering with the private sector on initiatives to encourage energy efficiency products that would extend power generation capacity to 18,000MW.
Minister of Environment, Mr. John Odey, who gave the indication at the opening of an international conference on Renewable Energy Growth in Africa (IREC) in Abuja, said the Ministry was collaborating with the private sector to encourage energy efficiency products that would ultimately lead to energy conservation at a substancial level in the country.
He said the plan of government was to move at least 20% of the nation's population towards renewable energy and low carbon economic development.
When fully implemented, the initiative will further stretch our projected national target of 6,000MW electricity to about 18,000MW without additional power stations as well as enhance our carbon credit, the Minister said.
Odey charged Nigerians to consider the task of building a low carbon economy as our collective responsibility, adding that all must begin to promote cleaner energy sources such as solar, hydro, wind geothermal as means of achieving improved power supply in the country.
"We should also promote and use energy efficiency products in our homes and offices. With this, we would be contributing to the efforts at combating global warming and climate change", he said.

The Minister therefore tasked the conference to explore and harness all forms of alternative energy sources in order to meet the energy demand of Nigeria's population and introduce successful financing mechanisms for renewable energy projects.
Chairman of the organising committee for IREC, Prof. A.M.A Imevbore, said renewable energy can be deployed much faster and will reach more rural and semi-urban people more rapidly than electricity from fossil fuel.
He, however, said the renewal energy policy and master plan cannot be successfully implemented without the necessary legal framework to back it up.
He noted that absence of the law backing the roll-out of the renewable energy master plan is hampering investment and development in the sector.
According to him, the law must be passed by the National Assembly which will include various incentives like feed-in-tarrifs, special tarrifs, caps and free duty.

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And what happened to the billions mismanaged and stolen by the Obasanjo administration after similar rhetorics?
Devil baptise all of una.

we are already using renewable energy, in the north they use malu to tow cart as transport, they use it ploughing the field for planting. every where we use firewood for cooking .

now we want non renewable energy, electricity from gas or oil

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[b]we are already using renewable energy, in the north they use malu to tow cart as transport, [/b]they use it ploughing the field for planting. every where we use firewood for cooking .

now we want non renewable energy, electricity from gas or oil