Category: Energy & Power

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode donates 5 million Naira to Sarunmi Oluwafemi and Dada Samuel of Lagos State College of Health Technology who emerged as first place winners of the Ready, Set, Work (RSW) programme with their designed biogas generating technology focused on the treatment of animal waste.

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Federal government-owned public liability, the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET), has signed the country’s first ever solar power purchase agreement (PPA) with more than ten project developers, totalling 975MW of utility-scale solar

The Building Energy Efficiency Guideline (BEEG) for Nigeria has been launched by the Federal Government of Nigeria as part of efforts by the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing (FMPWH) and the German Agency of International Cooperation (GIZ) through its Nigerian Energy Support Programme (NESP) to promote sustainable behaviours of practitioners and users in avoiding profligate usage and wastage of energy in the building sector.

The Guideline analyses the current energy efficiency practices in the building sector, presents a design methodology and appropriate solutions for achieving more energy efficient residential and office buildings in Nigeria. The Guideline therefore advocates that limiting the growth of electricity consumption will result not only in environmental and economic benefits, but also support energy security, reduce black outs, improve the accessibility to electricity for all, and boost the economic development of the country.

The Building Energy Efficiency Guideline (BEEG) was a collaboration ministry with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) under the Nigerian Energy Support Programme (NESP) and the guideline is expected to be a handbook for all professionals in the built environment. It consists of the reality of energy efficiency in building and factors to consider in achieving it.

To maximize energy efficiency in building, factors to be considered include, the specific micro climatic condition of the site; Site selection, orientation and shape of the building, in line with wind direction; conscious selection of building materials and envelop systems aimed at miximizing heat; the use of energy efficient lighting and equipment and deployment of renewable energy in powering few or all the building electrical loads.

Access to the Building Energy Efficiency Guideline (BEEG)

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SEVEN Energy, an indigenous, integrated oil and gas company has won the 2016 Gas to Power Industry Award, for its investment in the nation’s oil and gas sector, its commitment to sustainable power supply in Nigeria through efficient gas delivery, its Green Team Initiative – an innovative community-based approach to maintain, monitor and clear the Right of Way (RoW) of its gas pipelines and its recent admission into the Corporate Pillar category of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights

A Nigerian petroleum engineer carrying out research work as a ‘Sloan Fellow’ in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Mr. Onyeizu Chinedu has developed an online real-time petrol stock monitoring application that can identify filling stations or oil marketers that hoard petroleum products.

The application can also help the government track and apprehend instances of products diversion, which is the greatest challenge in managing distribution of petrol in Nigeria.

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Nigerian membership of the Energy Regulators Regional Association (ERRA) has been upgraded from associate status to full membership at the ongoing General Assembly of the international organisation holding in Warsaw, Poland