• Delta state launches RE policy roadmap.
• The state targets energy generation from renewable sources.
The Delta State Renewable Energy Policy Roadmap has continued to steer reactions from stakeholders and potential project beneficiaries. In an interview with BusinessDay, Gloria Umukotete, the assistant secretary of the Crenstar Renewable Energy Initiative (CREN), noted that it was a welcome development.
“I am one of the happiest persons to see that Delta State has keyed into the renewable energy to transit from the oil-based economy for the betterment of Deltans. That means, with what they have at hand (policy roadmap), we will join hands and work together with them,” she said.
“It will make us increase the advocacy of renewable energy to come to the grassroots,” said Umukotete, who doubles as the Delta State Coordinator of Women in Renewable Energy Association (Wire A).
She also said that CREN and WIRE-A were poised to embrace the Nigeria Energy Transition Plan geared towards achieving universal access to energy by 2030 and a carbon-neutral energy system by 2060 while also providing enough energy to power the industry and other productive uses.
The policy roadmap was established through the intervention of Clean Technology Hub (CTH), a non-governmental organisation and its sponsor, Heinrich Boll Stiftung (HBS) Foundation, a global brand, in collaboration with the state government and key stakeholders in the renewable energy sector.