UKRI – GCRF SIGMA Project Sustainability, Inclusiveness and Governance of Mini-grids in Africa

The International Center for Energy, Environment, and Development (ICEED) participated in the implementation of the three-year research project titled “Sustainability, Inclusiveness, and Governance of Mini-grids in Africa (SIGMA).” The UK Research and Innovation – Global Challenges Research Fund funded this project. It involved collaboration with other researchers from the University of Surrey, the Open University, […]

Energy Strategy Reviews Towards clean cooking energy for all in Nigeria.

In 2021, over 83 % of Nigerians lacked access to clean cooking technologies and fuels [1]. This rate is just above the regional average for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which is 81.5 % [2]. On a global scale, Nigeria comes only behind China and India regarding the total number of people living without access to clean […]

Rethinking Biomass Energy in Sub-Sahara Africa

In a paper produced for the International Conference on Renewable Energies in 2004, Stephen Karakezi, Kusum Lata and Suani Teixeira Coelho provided an explanation for the growing momentum on biomass energy around the world. This growing interest is driven by the following: Biomass energy contributes to poverty reduction in developing countries. It is crucial for […]

Renewable Energy Master Plan

The Renewable Energy Master Plan (REMP) articulates Nigeria’s vision and sets out a road map for increasing the role of renewable energy in achieving sustainable development. The REMP is anchored on the mounting convergence of values, principles and targets as embedded in the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS), National Energy Policy, National Policy […]

Renewable Electricity Policy Guidelines

The Policy Guidelines on Renewable Electricity (herein referred to as the Policy Guidelines) is the Federal Government of Nigeria’s overarching policy on all electricity derived from renewable energy sources. The Policy Guidelines sets out the Federal Government’s vision, policies and objectives for promoting renewable energy in the power sector.  The Policy Guidelines is drawn primarily […]

Renewable Electricity Action Program (REAP)

The Federal Government of Nigeria’s vision of renewable energy in the power sector is the achievement of accelerated sustainable development through affordable access to reliable renewable electric power. Access to electricity services is critical to achieving economic and social development targets outlined in the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) and the Millennium Development […]

Low-Carbon Jobs in an Interconnected World

Government action on climate change promises economic opportunity. The language of climate change policy has hitherto been largely negative, with wide use of such words as ‘limitation’, ‘constraint’ and ‘reduction’. However, investing in new technology, stimulating new economic activity around a re-engineering of energy systems and growing new markets – all necessary to avoid climate […]

Low-Carbon Africa: Nigeria

Nigeria experiences a tremendous paradox – the abundance of energy resources and widespread poverty. The country is home to 102 million extreme poor – one-in-four of Sub Sahara Africa’s total. It is also the region’s largest exporter of crude oil. Today, low access to energy services accounts, in part, for the slow progress against poverty […]

Low-Carbon Energy Development in Nigeria

As a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol, Nigeria has made international commitments to promoting low-carbon development, including meeting its reporting obligations to the UNFCCC, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases consistent with its national circumstances and within the context of poverty reduction and economic growth. The […]