The Nigeria Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) yesterday inaugurated the first Electric Vehicle Charging Station in Nigeria, in Sokoto State. NADDC noted that the pilot project, inaugurated at the Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto (UDUS), was also in collaboration with the institution. In his address, Director-General of NADDC, Mr Jelani Aliyu, said
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A report from think tank the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) has found that battery-powered trucks have much greater potential than expected to become economically competitive with diesel trucks. The transport sector generates approximately a quarter of global carbon emissions, making it a key target of decarbonisation strategies, along with heating and
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has reiterated commitment to its partnership with the Government of Kebbi on renewable energy projects. The NNPC Group Managing Director, Mele Kyari, disclosed this in a statement by the corporation’s Spokesman, Dr Kennie Obateru, in Abuja on Thursday. Kyari spoke when he received the Governor of
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An engineer and clean-energy entrepreneur discusses the troubling socio-economic gap in access to sustainable energy and the things we can do now to narrow and, perhaps, close it. As the world moves to more efficient and cleaner energy solutions, there is a growing divide between the clean-energy haves and have-nots, says
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Electricity was once considered “dirty” power produced from high-sulfur black diamond coal. Very few people wanted to switch from clean-burning natural gas. Today, electricity can be one of the cleanest power sources available and it can fuel vehicles and outdoor power equipment like lawn mowers and string trimmers. So, switching
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More than half of African companies are delaying their energy transition targets, leaving them in danger of missing the Paris Agreement target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, a new research by Standard Chartered has revealed. Zeronomics, a study into the financing of a net zero world, surveyed the senior
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Power generation companies were not paid 59.17 per cent of the invoice issued last year for the electricity produced and fed into the national grid. The government-owned Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc buys electricity in bulk from generation companies through Power Purchase Agreements and sells through vesting contracts to the Discos,
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The recent power outages in Texas brought attention to its power grid being separated from the rest of the country. While it is not immediately clear whether integration with other parts of the national grid would have completely eliminated the need for rolling outages, the state's inability to import significant
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A team of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) researchers has designed a 'smart' device to harvest daylight and relay it to underground spaces, reducing the need to draw on traditional energy sources for lighting. In Singapore, authorities are looking at the feasibility of digging deeper underground to create new space
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Fossil fuels are among the world’s most traded commodities: About 75 percent of crude oil, 25 percent of natural gas, and 21 percent of coal production are traded internationally. Electricity, by contrast, is a minor affair: Only about 3 percent of total generation crosses borders. That’s because fuels are easy to
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