The Director-Basic/Chief Government Officer of the Vitality Fee of Nigeria (ECN), Dr. Mustapha Abdullahi, has careworn the significance of adopting a balanced strategy to vitality utilization and implementing environment friendly vitality administration methods.
Dr. Abdullahi stated this strategy goals to minimise vitality wastage, which is essential for sustainable growth and environmental conservation.
Based on him, efficient vitality administration entails optimising vitality consumption patterns, decreasing vitality losses, and selling the usage of renewable vitality sources.
Abdullahi said this in Abuja at a one-day capacity-building workshop on Vitality Administration Programs (EnMS), organised by the Fee in collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Growth Group (UNIDO).
Organized beneath a mission titled “Bettering Nigeria’s Industrial Vitality Efficiency and Useful resource-Environment friendly Cleaner Manufacturing by Programmatic Approaches and Promotion of Innovation in Clear Expertise Options,” individuals had been drawn from a number of ministries, departments, and companies.
The ECN DG stated: “This well timed coaching on Vitality Administration Programs (EnMS) is organized to current a scientific framework for establishing insurance policies, processes, procedures, and particular vitality duties towards assembly a corporation’s energy-saving targets.
“The adoption of vitality administration programs (EnMS) will allow vitality shoppers (industrial, industrial, and public) to repeatedly handle their vitality use and enhance vitality effectivity.
“It’s going to help organizations in figuring out areas of vitality wastage and alternatives to enhance energy-saving applied sciences, together with easy housekeeping measures that don’t essentially require excessive capital funding.”
Quoting Nigeria’s up to date Nationally Decided Contribution (NDC), he said that Nigeria goals to scale back emissions by 20 per cent beneath a business-as-usual situation by 2030 unconditionally and by 47 per cent if worldwide assist is offered.
Declaring the occasion open, the Nationwide Programme Coordinator for Atmosphere and Vitality at UNIDO’s Sub-Regional Workplace Hub for Nigeria and ECOWAS, Oluyomi Banjo, emphasised the pressing want for industries in rising economies to undertake sustainable practices.
Particularly, he highlighted the significance of decreasing vitality consumption, environmental degradation, and useful resource depletion.Banjo highlighted the numerous influence of industries on the atmosphere, noting that they eat roughly one-third of theworld’s complete vitality and are accountable for almost 40 per cent of world carbon emissions.
He stated that the mission goals to develop specialised experience in Nigeria’s industrial sector, which can’t solely profit the nation but in addition be shared with different African nations and past, selling sustainable industrial practices on a broader scale.
“This mission will handle to a great extent the questions on how industries can enhance their effectivity, improve profitability, function at worldwide finest requirements, adjust to laws, and keep an improved relationship with policymakers.
“A pilot financing RECP-IEE scheme is being executed by the Financial institution of Trade of Nigeria, and points round ISO 50000 and 14001 are being executed by the Requirements Group of Nigeria.
“We hope to assist not lower than 70 industries throughout 5 sectors: meals and beverage, wooden and furnishings, metal and metals, textiles and clothes, and petrochemicals.
“We are going to develop the capability of the Organized Non-public Sector and prepare not lower than 300 Nigerian RECP-IEE specialists,” he said.
