Future Energy Leaders’ Club

Online Energy Course for High School Students in Nigeria

Temporary Solutions

Temporary Solutions

Use of generators (Diesel & Petrol)

Generators

• Merits:– Provide power– Easily accessible

• Demerits: – High cost– Not sustainable– Health hazards– Environmental pollution

17.4 billion naira on new generators About 3.3 trillion naira on maintenance and other variable

costs. Not sustainable

Solar-Inverters

• Merits:

– Environmentally friendly

– Low maintenance cost (except for replacement of batteries)

• Demerits:

– Huge initial cost

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Solar-Inverters

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Environmental impacts of generators

• Noise pollution

• Air pollution (poor air quality – health issues, such as cancer, short life span, stress, increase in CO2, global warming, increase in sea-level)

Protecting the environment

• Hard decision (considering the need for temporary measures)

• Go with green-alternatives.

• Why do we need to protect our environment?

– it is where we live

– for posterity

• An informed generation will protect the environment.

Activity

Essay: How does air pollution from generator exhaust impacts greenhouse gas, sea level increase and climate change? What are the other demerits of CO2 from generator’s exhaust?

These are essay topics to be published in our grand finale brochure and will be part of the theme for the debate competition.

Electricity cost

• 50% Metering Gap was quoted by Sam Amadi, Chairman, NERC in the Punch Newspaper on May 21, 2014.

• In 2011, self-generation was estimated to produce between 4,000 and 8,000 MW.

• The World Bank estimates that only 48% of Nigerians have access to electricity.

• Power from private generators costs $0.35 per kilowatt-hour or more, ten times more than electricity from the grid in most other countries. (The economist)

Cost Analysis

• Comparison of the cost to standard utility electricity cost. • Impact of the high cost (unemployment – as a result of high

overhead cost incurred by companies). • The 2011 study published by the World Bank, revealed that

for average residential consumption levels of 100 kilowatt hours per month Nigeria’s tariff was 3.4 US cents/kWh and South Africa’s tariff was 3.6 US cents/kWh.

• On 7 July 2014, Nigeria’s Presidential Task Force on Power estimated that electricity demand in Nigeria stood at 12,800 MW, while the country was only able to produce 3,400 MW.

• - See more at: http://africacheck.org/reports/are-electricity-tariffs-in-nigeria-really-the-lowest-in-africa/#sthash.GklEYbO8.dpuf