Vandalization of Power transmitters miltigate against energy efficiency in Nigeria — REA boss

The Managing Director of Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Mrs Damolola Ogunbiyi, has said the vandalization of electricity transmitter is the major factor miltigating against the efficiency of power supply in Nigeria.

Ogunbiyi stated this recently in Jos during the 3rd National council on power (NACOP), conference held to fashion out ways too bust electricity supply in the country.

Speaking on the theme “Completing Power Sector Reforms”, She said the intervention of N702 billion to the power sector through the CBN as a loan to the Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading PLC (NBET), to boost it’s operation, is aimed at putting similes on the faces of consumers.

She however, said the initiative was criticized in some quarters as a partial solution, but urged country men to be patient with exercise, adding that the Federal Government should consider the establishment of a clean Energy Fund to promote the use of solar and other renewable energy.

She said, “energy efficient appliances like LEDs, Clean Cook Stoves, LPG, Mini Grids and Off Grid Energy Projects should get more funding from the Ecological funds in other to boost energy supply”, she said.

she adding that the funds will be made available as single digit rates and spread over a reasonable period of time, like up to five years.

The agency boos lamented further that there is need for structure and coordinated energy data collection, so as to enable informed target settings, saying that energy management system protocol could be adopted in the industrial sector to provide data which will served as a benchmark for a scale up adoption of energy efficiency in the industrial sector on the other hand.

“Power sector should set compliance target for the replacement of inefficient performers with specific annual contributions of donors and development partners to be identified and captured in the budget to ensure transparency and accountability aim at preventing double budgeting and duplication”, she said

By Kingsley Chukwuka,Jos