Journal of Fundamentals of Renewable Energy and Applications
Open Access
ISSN: 2090-4541
+44 1300 500008
ISSN: 2090-4541
+44 1300 500008
Richard Layi Fagbenle
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Fundam Renewable Energy Appl
The Renewable Energy Master Plan (REMP) for Nigeria was published a decade ago in 2005 following the Draft National Energy Policy (NEP) of 1993 as the only existing energy policy document at the time. The 1993 Draft NEP has since been reviewed and updated in 1996 and 2003 after which it got the approval of the Federal Government Executive Council. The NEP was again revised a decade later in 2013. A draft National Energy Master Plan (NEMP) was also developed in 2007 which captured renewable energy though as can be expected not in the great detail of the REMP of 2005. A commonality in all these documents is the absence of government white paper on any of them. Thus the clear intent and position of government in such an official publication is lacking. This paper examines Nigeria�s green energy landscape in 2015 from the perspectives of the government actions and inactions (both at the Federal and State government levels) as a driver of the often stated intent to engage renewable energy. The Federal Government�s inability to provide an enabling environment for the creation of a functional and virile renewable energy market in Nigeria in about two decades since the NEP came into existence (and a decade of existence of the REMP) will be examined and possible solution to the problem will also be discussed.
Email: layifagbenle@gmail.com