00:00Welcome to Nigeria. Thank you. So let's get right into the question. Now the first question is this, what project action should the ministry take to ensure sustainable growth for energy in terms of industrial parks?
00:27Okay, so industrial parks are a big load. So they need like, you know, it depends on the grid. I know in Nigeria, there are challenges with the transmission and distribution, which causes losses and higher costs. So the first thing would be to stabilize the grid. Yes, work on the infrastructure. I know infrastructure in Nigeria, you have a lot of decentralized power.
00:51So I think perhaps one urgent solution would be to have a dedicated power plant for that, like a renewable one, like solar, which is modular. It's portable. So that would be, although the costs, not so much the costs, but it would be the reliability, the accessibility and all the other issues addressed.
01:11Yes. And depending on the law, if the law has a direct purchase from, you know, a way that the consumer can purchase directly from the generator, that's a solution.
01:24Yes. Well, in East Africa, because I'm into renewables. So, you know, obviously you've heard of the just energy, the transition. The whole world is trying to move from fossil fuels to renewables, you know, to for climate change action and everything.
01:45So one of the first things we need to do is, you know, in East Africa, we were in Uganda anyway, our grid is a hundred percent renewable for electricity.
01:55So, but the challenge we have is a majority of the population doesn't even use electricity. They use biomass, firewood and charcoal for cooking.
02:04So clean cooking. So clean cooking is a big, big part of our agenda. So if we can, to avoid deforestation and even bigger environmental issues.
02:12So we're channeling that. We're trying to teach people to use electricity for cooking, you know, to move from traditional methods of cooking to modern, using modern energy services and renewables, solar, hydro, wind, geothermal.
02:29In Nigeria, you have a lot of oil and gas, obviously it's 90%. So maybe I thought it could be repurposed. You could tap into that infrastructure for geothermal energy, which is inside the earth's core.
02:43So that would be one way of transitioning to, yes, exactly using the same infrastructure and the same workforce, but then cleaning up, you know, the plan. Yes.
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