The Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN), Dr. Mustapha Abdullahi, has confused the significance of adopting a balanced strategy to vitality utilization and implementing environment friendly vitality administration methods.
Dr. Abdullahi mentioned this strategy goals to minimise vitality wastage, which is essential for sustainable growth and environmental conservation.
According to him, efficient vitality administration includes optimising vitality consumption patterns, lowering vitality losses, and selling using renewable vitality sources.
Abdullahi said this in Abuja at a one-day capacity-building workshop on Energy Management Systems (EnMS), organised by the Commission in collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
Organized underneath a undertaking titled “Improving Nigeria’s Industrial Energy Performance and Resource-Efficient Cleaner Production through Programmatic Approaches and Promotion of Innovation in Clean Technology Solutions,” members had been drawn from a number of ministries, departments, and companies.
The ECN DG mentioned: “This well timed coaching on Energy Management Systems (EnMS) is organized to current a scientific framework for establishing insurance policies, processes, procedures, and particular vitality duties towards assembly a company’s energy-saving targets.
“The adoption of vitality administration programs (EnMS) will allow vitality shoppers (industrial, industrial, and public) to regularly handle their vitality use and enhance vitality effectivity.
“It will assist organizations in identifying areas of energy wastage and opportunities to improve energy-saving technologies, including simple housekeeping measures that do not necessarily require high capital investment.”
Quoting Nigeria’s up to date Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), he said that Nigeria goals to scale back emissions by 20 per cent beneath a business-as-usual state of affairs by 2030 unconditionally and by 47 per cent if worldwide help is offered.
Declaring the occasion open, the National Programme Coordinator for Environment and Energy at UNIDO’s Sub-Regional Office Hub for Nigeria and ECOWAS, Oluyomi Banjo, emphasised the pressing want for industries in rising economies to undertake sustainable practices.
Specifically, he highlighted the significance of lowering vitality consumption, environmental degradation, and useful resource depletion.
Banjo highlighted the vital impression of industries on the setting, noting that they eat roughly one-third of the
world’s complete vitality and are answerable for almost 40 per cent of world carbon emissions.
He mentioned that the undertaking goals to develop specialised experience in Nigeria’s industrial sector, which may not solely profit the nation but in addition be shared with different African nations and past, selling sustainable industrial practices on a broader scale.
“This undertaking will deal with to extent the questions on how industries can enhance their effectivity, improve profitability, function at worldwide greatest requirements, adjust to laws, and preserve an improved relationship with policymakers.
“A pilot financing RECP-IEE scheme is being executed by the Bank of Industry of Nigeria, and points round ISO 50000 and 14001 are being executed by the Standards Organization of Nigeria.
“We hope to help not lower than 70 industries throughout 5 sectors: meals and beverage, wooden and furnishings, metal and metals, textiles and clothes, and petrochemicals.
“We will develop the capacity of the Organized Private Sector and train not less than 300 Nigerian RECP-IEE experts,” he said.