Nigeria misses chance to improve power, by skipping int’l wind technology workshop

Failure of Nigeria to attend the just concluded wind energy technology workshop may deny it joining the league of countries already benefitting from use of the technology to improve power generation.

But GB Electricals, a consulting firm with the committee, in a statement yesterday said the country had been in tune with the new finding showing that the solution to the unstable power generation will be solved by the power generating companies (Gencos) embracing modern approach as alternative to continued reliance on gas and hydro source.

However, the 2016 Global Wind Energy Technology & Equipment Industry report by professionals, who attended the three-day Geneva workshop, which ended in September 20, 2016 created the field for in-depth research on the safety and cost implications of the technology.

Citing some developed economies that already started benefitting from the technology, the experts named North America, Europe and Asia. and the main countries to include United States, Germany, Japan and China, while some developing countries, like Indonesia and South Africa participated.

Some of what the country would have benefited in being part of the team would have been how to seamlessly design package of the technology in compliance with its peculiar system.

Experts maintained that one of the ways of achieving stable power in Nigeria is to generate energy from the cheapest source and distribute it with less costs, thereby relieving the national grid of its current over load.

Referring to the international report, they said wind energy technology and equipment basics are more easily affordable

But the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola recently told the world that Nigeria was inching towards embracing solar energy technology with 10,000 mw anticipated from it in 2020.

By Emma Eke….

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