Nigerian Energy Crisis: Exploring Renewable Energy Solutions in the New Decade
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| Authors & editors | |
| Publisher | Academia Letters |
| Year of publication | 2021 July |
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| Medium | Digital |
| Edition | 1 |
| Topics | Climate, environment and development > Renewable energy policy and economics |
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| Scope & content | Part of inroducation Blessed with an abundance of energy resources - renewable and non-renewable - which can potentially meet the energy demands of its growing economy, and realize its ambitions of a full, national scale electrification grid, Nigeria currently sits among the lowest electricity consumers per capita in Africa which is quite contrasting considering it’s over 200 million-man population. With demand grossly exceeding supply, erratic power supply which sees some regions of the country experience a maximum of 4 hours of supply daily with interruption periods in between spanning days and even weeks without prior notice (Aliyu et. al, 2013). |