mikolo80:
very stoopid nonsense. we have over 600 trillion in gas reserves and dip mumu say we should ignore it and chase very insanely expensive and unproven alternative energy. solar cannot run industry..... yet

mikolo80:
very stoopid nonsense. we have over 600 trillion in gas reserves and dip mumu say we should ignore it and chase very insanely expensive and unproven alternative energy. solar cannot run industry..... yet

We should plan our future power generation as if Nigeria does not have any gas reserves.

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.

hypertension:
nonsense

YoursGEJ:
Nice write up. I'm an advocate for renewable energy. Wind and solar are the future

fiizznation:
But wind and solar are not efficient. And the are very expensive to run too

YoursGEJ:


My brother, efficiency is only a problem when the source of fuel is expensive. Sun berekete for Nigeria. Cost, I must admit, is still an issue but that will change in the next few years

fiizznation:
Though Nigeria isn't an industrialised nation yet, but how many solar or windmills do you think can power a state in nigeria? Don't forget my friend, at a very low wind speed, the average windmill can't produce enough energy to overcome its internal frictions and some other losses. And if the wind gets too high, that's another problem again. Lol, can Nigerians beat that?

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

989900B:
Fashola already mentioned diversifying our power generation sources.

OTOH, using gas for power generation is not the isssue, rather the location of the power plants that need the gas vs source of gas -- the whole power generation/transmission/distribution master plan is skewed and faulty from the get-go!

If the gas reserves in Lagos, Ondo, Abia, and Imo states are to be tapped into for plants for example, you don't need a rocket scientist to tell you, you have to site plant as close to source as possible . . . then you transmit from there.


The Alaoji (Abia), Aba Power (Abia) and Egbema (Imo) plants for example I think are closer to source (not very sure though).

fiizznation:
If your fashola did say he wants to diversify our energy from fossil fuel/fossil power plants to renewable energy, than I don't think that man knows what he is doing as the power minister{besides the man is a lawyer so I shouldn't be surprised}. Even the industrialised nations that he is trying to copy were using coal, fossil power plants in the last century. How can any reasonable person ignore the abandoned gas we have in Nigeria and start looking for windmills/solar panels we don't have or produce?

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola has reiterated the commitment of government in diversifying its energy mix for improvement in electricity supply.
According to the Minister, who spoke while receiving in audience the visiting, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mr. Yukiya Amano, the mix will go beyond the traditional sources of gas, oil and hydro to include nuclear and other renewable sources like solar, biomass and wind.

YoursGEJ:


Idk why you people underestimate renewable energy especially solar power. Do you know that only the landmass of Spain covered with solar panels is enough the entire world? Look at this link below

http://www.techinsider.io/map-shows-solar-panels-to-power-the-earth-2015-9

fiizznation:
My friend renewable energy is like the best source of power generation in the world today. [s]About 70% of America's energy today is sourced from wind.[/s] But Nigeria today don't have the money to diversify its energy. We don't have what it takes to maintain these solar powers and windmills. Understand this bro

fiizznation:
My friend renewable energy is like the best source of power generation in the world today. About 70% of America's energy today is sourced from wind. But Nigeria today don't have the money to diversify its energy. We don't have what it takes to maintain these solar powers and windmills. Understand this bro