FG seeks stakeholders’ collaborations to harness nation’s energy potentialities

Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Sen. Adeleke Mamora, has solicited energy stakeholders’ collaborations to maximally harness the nation’s energy potentialities for development.

Mamora made the call when he declared open a 3-day expanded stakeholders’ engagement and interactive consultations on the proposed 30 megawatt hybrid pilot wind farm projects on Thursday in Sokoto.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the project are located at Jaredi town and Shagari earth dam in Shagari Local Government Area.

He said the stakeholders’ engagement and consultation was intended, to among other things, seek.to highlight and chart a way forward for the country to deepen, grow and develop the energy sector for sustainable development.

” Our abundant renewable energy resources need to be harnessed effectively. I understand that we have experts from relevant fields that will share with us.

” I am excited, my ministry is having a very good working relationship with international, regional and relevant stakeholder-energy organisations to facilitate the needed development in the sector.

” I am optimistic that the harmonious working relationship will provide solutions and also explore the huge potentials of renewable energy resources available for rapid transformations of our economy,” Mamora said.

Mamora added that the just-concluded COP 27 in Egypt came at a critical moment in the fight against climate change and had emphasized on the need to expand our energy access, decarbonise the global energy system and transform the approach to economy.

According to him, the choice of Sokoto cannot be over emphasized as all available data reports suggested it had favourable renewable energy potentialities.

The minister lauded Gov. Aminu Tambuwal for his encouraging policies on energy resources and commitment to economic rejuvenations which were intended to drive Federal Government’s drives.

He said: ”President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration since 2015 strived to provide an enabling environment for private investments into the energy sector and renewable energy deployment.”

In his remark, Tambuwal, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Mainasara Ahmad, reiterated the state governmentá determinations on exploring energy potentials.

Tambuwal said the state government established the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum Resources besides the Ministry of Science and Technology to cue into global best practices on providing needed energy for socio-economic activities and enhancing productivity.

Earlier, Prof. Lawal Bilbis, the Vice-Chancellor of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, commended the Federal Government on the drives, adding that more experts were available in the country to conduct researches and translate them into actions to achieve maximum benefits of country’s energy sector.

Bilbis, represented by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research and Innovation, Prof. Lawal Sa’id said a combined synergy between stakeholders would surely facilitate the achievement of the desired impacts.