Renewable Power Energy Production:The Energy Sustenance option for Nigeria

Abstract

In Nigeria, as in many developing countries, providing energy to rural and urban areas has proved to be a great challenge. With increasing population, the pressures on the infrastructure for the supply of conventional energy resources will continue to increase. Economic growth, rapid industrialization and high standard of living of the global population demand more and more energy in different forms. Since the quantity of available energy from conventional resources shrinks day-by-day, development of newer or renewable energy technologies and improvement of conventional technologies become necessary to meet the energy demand in the future. The demand for energy in Nigeria can be met, or better still “subsidised” by this method as most of the demand from the National grid can be reduced considerably because several mega-watts of energy can be generated from renewable source. To this end the end-use forms of energy like electricity for both the improvements and development of technology becomes easily and readily available to all and sundry..

Keywords:- Renewable energy, solar, biomass, economic growth,, rural Nigeria