The Vitality Fee of Nigeria and a cross-section of power sector stakeholders have supplied a complete answer to forestall companies from shutting down attributable to rising power prices in Nigeria.
This was the central theme at a one-day sensitisation workshop on industrial power effectivity finest practices in Nigeria organised by the Vitality Fee of Nigeria in collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Growth Organisation and the World Setting Facility venture.
In his remarks, the director basic of ECN, Mustapha Abdullahi, stated that amid the excessive power value, power wastage needs to be prevented as a lot as attainable. He defined that power effectivity is managing power consumption by way of environment friendly end-use applied sciences and practices that minimise waste, utilizing much less power to supply the identical services or products.
He added that power effectivity will in the end cut back the power depth of the nation’s {economic} sectors.
On his half, a marketing consultant to the ECN on the Industrial Vitality Effectivity (IEE) database developed underneath the United Nations Industrial Growth Organisation (UNIDO) and World Setting Facility (GEF) venture, Engr. Okon Ekpenyong stated companies don’t must shut down attributable to excessive power prices.
Additionally, the Nationwide Venture Coordinator of GEF-UNIDO IEE and the Useful resource Effectivity and Cleaner Manufacturing venture, Oladipo Jacob, urged companies to imbibe power effectivity and useful resource effectivity to spice up their manufacturing.
I counsel that they imbibe power effectivity and useful resource effectivity of their manufacturing. It’s the solely solution to make an impression and safe their companies. The result of this venture might be made accessible to industries and all different sectors of the nation to learn from this assist, he said.
The Normal Organisation of Nigeria and different stakeholders additionally harped on adopting power effectivity measures in Nigeria.
