- 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.
- Source: Thisday