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Concerned about the rate at which natural resources are being depleted to produce energy, Skangix Development Limited (SDL) and the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) have entered into strategic partnership determined to promote clean and renewable energy in Nigeria.
The partnership is also advocating for the protection of the planet, Earth, as energy efficiency and use of renewable energy will greatly reduce people’s dependence on fossil fuel.
In Nigeria, fluctuating power supply has affected productivity, in many ways, making it difficult to attract foreign investors. Local investors are incurring losses in revenue due to the perennial power challenge which is why the partnership is promoting renewable energy and advocating actions to embrace the use of solar energy.
The conservationists are of the view that, with limited resources, now is the time to promote sustainable energy policies which put human wellbeing and the environment first. “We must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources; our actions today would help protect our future”, said Adeniyi Karunwi, DG, Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), at the 2017 Energy Week.
Karunwi hinted that the partnership is also advocating for a Nigeria where people live in harmony with nature by encouraging environmental conservation, investments in clean and renewable energy and the achievement of the sustainable development goals while recognising the role of children in promoting the sustainability agenda.
To advance this cause, the two companies, as part of activities to mark this year’s Energy Week, organized an essay competition among 99 students from 31 private and public schools within the Lagos State Education Board District III with the theme ‘Energy: Make it Nature Friendly’.
The aim of the competition, according to them, was to promote the concept of clean energy amongst secondary school children in Lagos State, noting that every second, the sun produces enough energy to sustain Earth’s need and there is need to harness this energy to stem problems associated with fossil fuel usage such as global warming.
“As we jointly celebrate the 2017 Energy Week, we need to unite in this partnership and the success recorded as we cannot afford to relent in the progress made so far. We earnestly need to pursue the idea of energy efficiency and renewability”, Karunwi stressed.
Sam Coker, Skangix MD, was delighted with the standard of performance in the essay topic which, according to him, demonstrated and reflected the slow but steady growth and awareness of the society in the realization of the importance of this form of energy supply in Nigeria, but more especially for the countries living within the tropics.
He explained that SDL is an energy service company committed to advocating and providing solar energy solutions, as an energy mix (for the starters), migrating to fully solar dependence in every home.
CHUKA UROKO
