In this class, temporary measures that are adopted to fix the problem of insufficient power supply are examined. Their merits and demerits are also highlighted. The hidden cost of environmental pollution relating to the use of petrol and diesel generators are discussed. The class ends with a task to examine the effect of carbon emissions on global warming.

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Students in Nigeria
Temporary Solutions

2. Temporary Solutions
Use of generators (Diesel & Petrol)

3. Generators
• Merits:
– Provide power
– Easily accessible
• Demerits:
– High cost
– Not sustainable
– Health hazards
– Environmental pollution
 17.4 billion naira on new generators
 About 3.3 trillion naira on maintenance and other variable
costs.
 Not sustainable

4. Solar-Inverters
• Merits:
– Environmentally friendly
– Low maintenance cost (except for replacement of
batteries)
• Demerits:
– Huge initial cost
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5. Solar-Inverters
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7. Environmental impacts of generators
• Noise pollution
• Air pollution (poor air quality – health issues,
such as cancer, short life span, stress, increase
in CO2, global warming, increase in sea-level)

8. Protecting the environment
• Hard decision (considering the need for temporary measures)
• Go with green-alternatives.
• Why do we need to protect our environment?
– it is where we live
– for posterity
• An informed generation will protect the environment.

9. Activity
Essay: How does air pollution from generator exhaust impacts
greenhouse gas, sea level increase and climate change? What
are the other demerits of CO2 from generator’s exhaust?
These are essay topics to be published in our grand finale
brochure and will be part of the theme for the debate
competition.

10. Electricity cost

11. • 50% Metering Gap was quoted by Sam Amadi,
Chairman, NERC in the Punch Newspaper on May
21, 2014.
• In 2011, self-generation was estimated to
produce between 4,000 and 8,000 MW.
• The World Bank estimates that only 48% of
Nigerians have access to electricity.
• Power from private generators costs $0.35 per
kilowatt-hour or more, ten times more than
electricity from the grid in most other countries.
(The economist)

12. Cost Analysis
• Comparison of the cost to standard utility electricity cost.
• Impact of the high cost (unemployment – as a result of high
overhead cost incurred by companies).
• The 2011 study published by the World Bank, revealed that
for average residential consumption levels of 100 kilowatt
hours per month Nigeria’s tariff was 3.4 US cents/kWh and
South Africa’s tariff was 3.6 US cents/kWh.
• On 7 July 2014, Nigeria’s Presidential Task Force on Power
estimated that electricity demand in Nigeria stood at
12,800 MW, while the country was only able to produce
3,400 MW.
• - See more at: http://africacheck.org/reports/are-electricity-tariffs-in-nigeria-really-the-lowest-in-
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