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.”
