WHY SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS FAIL IN NIGERIA
Solar Power: Here is why solar energy in Nigeria failed – STUDY The study suggests that a government seeking to build more solar parks must improve its ability to model the effectiveness of such parks and consider demographical as well as geographical factors. Many solar energy projects in Africa fail because they lack proper planning and long-term government support, according to a study on solar power in Nigeria. The study, published last month in Renewable Energy, sought to find out why solar power is failing to deliver cheap energy to people in Nigeria. The researchers found that governments and agencies planning solar projects lacked awareness of how many people they wanted to reach, whether the location of planned solar parks was suitable and how the plant and the households it would benefit would be connected to the grid. “So many small businesses in Nigeria close up due to power problems.” Eugene Ikejemba, University of Twente in the Netherlands “So many projects ...