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December 1, 2005

Renewable Energy: Nigeria Targets 16,000 MW by 2015

[This Day - African Views on Global News] The Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN) said the country is planning to produce about 15903 MW of electricity from renewable energy sources by 2015. A report by the technical committee set up by Federal Government to evaluate the country's renewable energy potentials said the nation has about 15 sources from which it can expand its existing power generation capacities. Speaking at the workshop on renewable energy development organized by ECN in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Abuja, the Director-General of ECN, Prof. Abubakar Sambo said government is developing a master plan that would enable the exploitation of renewable energy sources in the areas of solar energy, small hydros, wind and biomass energy generating systems.
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December 1, 2005
I can remember reading of a plan to build solar concentrating plants in North Africa to provide a source of energy to store and transport hydrogen by pipeline on a large scale to supply parts of Europe. Now look at the possabilities, given the huge potential for renewable energy development in this area
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This is true. In the Northern, dry part of Nigeria, Concentrating Solar Power plants can be operated very well.
There is a cooling problem, air cooling can be applied. But when there is a brackish or salt or heavily polluted lake, the waste heat can be appied for desalination and the production of destilled water.
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December 5, 2005
Is there a reason this article says 15903 MW instead of MWh? I've seen this mistake a couple of times in your articles - don't mean to be picky, but I know it would be less confusing for me if units of power and energy were correctly noted.
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