With no legislation backing the burgeoning solar energy industry in Nigeria at the moment, an industry expert has stressed the need for genuine players in the sector and relevant authorities to collaborate to fight the influx of inexperienced installers and substandard solar systems into the country.
He said the renewable energy sector has made tremendous progress over the last several years, beginning from opening up the sector to Foreign Direct Investment to standardisation of inputs to key policy thrusts designed to galvanise investments in the sector and to ensuring smooth transition to clean energy.
“At Gennex, we have blazed the trail by coming up with innovative approaches to tackling this problem, but the situation in the entire industry is not helped by the proliferation of inexperienced and unqualified solar installers who advise commercial, industrial and even residential customers on solutions design and sizing, and choice of inputs.
Stating that those issues were germane to the development of the entire solar and renewable energy industry in Nigeria, he added that the industry players and policy makers cannot play the ostrich and pretend that those issues do not matter or affect the development of the industry. “Our expectation is that by bringing the entire ecosystem together to highlight and distil these issues and solutions, we will have workable plans of action going forward. Through Gennex Colloquium 2022, we are also optimistic that we will be able to place on the table of policy actors, critical insights and agenda that would galvanise the development of the entire renewable energy industry.