Most knowledgeable energy followers are often bemused by the decisions of any country that literally sits in an energy-ocean but strangely chooses to laboriously harness its power needs from difficult sources.
It is understandable that Nigeria as a major oil producer generates most of its electricity (80 per cent) from hydrocarbon powered turbines.
However, it remains very difficult to understand why in the face of the failure of the fuel powered systems to provide the needed electricity in Nigeria, other available easy-pick energy sources have remained significantly unharnessed.
In most countries, centralised large-scale power generations have become the paradigm for power provision which sadly have increasingly undermined the 20th century renewable energy realities.
For Nigeria, a nation of over 170 million citizens located in the heart of the tropics, occupying a vast land area of 923,768 km² of high solar insolation, the inability to generate beyond its current level of less than 5,000MW of electricity has sadly remained a major blight in development of all sectors of its economy.
