A Professor of Power and Energy Engineering at Ambrose Alli College, AAU, Ekpoma, Osadolor Orlando Odia, has referred to as for the repeal of the privatisation of the distribution of electrical energy.
Prof. Odia, of the Division of Mechanical Engineering of the establishment, additionally advocated that the monitoring of the pay as you go metering system must be achieved by way of distant modular connectivity.
Odia made the decision whereas delivering the 108th inaugural lecture of the college titled, “Exploration and Exploitation of Power Assets: Implications for Man and the Earth.”
The college don, who famous that the privatisation train is inimical to rural growth, nonetheless, referred to as on the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Authorities to, as a matter of urgency, declare a state of emergency on energy technology and distribution in Nigeria to handle the nation’s vitality deficiency.
He additionally opined that no nation can attain the requisite growth with out electrical energy or with a excessive diploma of vitality deficiency, as at present skilled in Nigeria.
He defined that Nigeria, with a inhabitants now within the extra of 200 million and with the current stage of dedication and need for growth, wants a technology capability of a minimum of 60,000 MW and an obtainable capability of a minimum of 40,000 MW within the fast future, with a stable association to double the technology and obtainable capacities earlier than 2035.
“Nigeria’s electrical energy energy availability is, to say the least, abysmal, as Nigeria tops the record of nations with the longest annual outage period in Africa with 4, 600 hours. That is 3, 200 hours greater than the following nation on the record, the Niger Republic.
“Nigeria is ranked because the world’s worst nation almost about entry to electrical energy, with about 90 million (46%) of the entire inhabitants not linked to the grid. The place the grid is offered, which corresponds to 54% of the entire inhabitants, energy is just obtainable for between 4 and 15 hours per week.
“With solely about 3 GW of availability, Nigerian energy manufacturing falls far in need of demand, which is the first constraint on the nation’s financial development. Nigeria’s energy state of affairs is really depressing in comparison with the large inhabitants and the specified charge of growth,” he stated.
Odia, who posited that the nationwide vitality problem has not gone past redemption, famous that sure steps have to be taken with all of the required precision.
In response to him, past declaring a state of emergency within the energy sector, the federal authorities should contemplate the repeal of the privatisation of the distribution sector, introduce a pay as you go metering system and monitor it by way of distant modular connectivity.
He, nonetheless, advocated for the decentralisation of transmission by carving the nation into six to 10 models, looping the models with gear switches to scale back the rampant outages as a result of system failures and investing massively in technology, amongst different issues.
