Renewable Energy and Energy Sufficiency Associations-Alliance (REEA-A) has called on stakeholders to come together and fashion out policies for the sector.
The Chairman of REEA-A Steering Committee, Imamudeen Talba made the call at a 3-day workshop on the Review and Harmonisation of Renewable Energy and Energy Policies in Nigeria.
He said the review and harmonisation of the renewable energy as well as energy efficiency policies in the country would go a long way to assist the country in general and the sector in particular.
As the situation currently is, Talba believes there were policies of mismatches as there was no coordination, adding that, “Different policies were being driven by different people and institutions without synergy.
“The policies are so uncoordinated that everybody is doing his own, if you are looking for data, you can hardly see them, because there is nobody to harmonise the data store where you can get it.
“Every government institution, when you look at their budget, you see everybody going about renewable energy.
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“Everybody going about solar project, so there is the need to come together to have a coordinated framework so that somebody will be identified as a leader in that aspect,” he said.
Talba said there was the need to have an institution that would be held accountable for whatever investment the government was making in respect of renewable energy.
According to him, the kind of framework on ground was so disintegrated as different institutions were going about renewable energy and there was no coordination.
“So, at the end of the day, there is nothing to show, because there is no target or specific goal and nothing had been achieved, but money had been spent.
“So, the alliance decided that there is a need to bring everybody together, so that we can identify what we need because we we have a common goal.
“Our common goal is that the government must better the lives of Nigerians,” he said.
Speaking, the Director of Renewable Energy and Rural Power Access at the Federal Ministry of Ministry of Power, Alli Abubakar said the workshop was put together to brainstorm on ways to harmonise all policies for energy sufficiency through renewable energy.
He said that decisions reached at the workshop on the harmonisation would assist government to deliver optimally on the promises of providing clean and efficient energy to Nigerian citizens.
Abubakar was represented by Emeafu Ebere who is a staff of the Federal Ministry of Power.