- He said the new battery technology would also help Nigeria attain cleaner energy and a clean environment
Nigeria will soon introduce a special battery technology that will help address the problem of electricity or power failure in the country.
The Minister of Environment, Balarabe Lawal disclosed this in an interview with State House Correspondents at the end of a preparatory meeting towards Nigeria’s participation at the forthcoming COP 28 conference on climate change.
He said the new battery technology would also help Nigeria attain cleaner energy and a clean environment.
“We came in for a meeting which has to do with the forthcoming COP 28 which has to do with the issue of energy. We are looking at a situation in which we are going to have cleaner energy in terms of trying to get energy that is based on battery technology.
“That will be linked to our national grid and that will now create a sustainable energy that will decarbonize the kind of power and energy that we now operate in Nigeria.
“The main target is that we are trying to now put an edge in the grid that will now help so that we are now going to see power failure as a thing of the past. So, what we are going to do is to have what we call UPS, whenever there is a power failure, then the UPS takes over. In essence, there will be no power failure again,” the Environment Minister explained.
He said a committee was set up to produce a roadmap leading to the actualization of the plan.
The Minister said the Committee has one week within which to submit its report.