Nigerians for Super Energy Launches its First Advertising Campaign “Electricity is Priceless” on YouTube

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Nigerians for Super Energy
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MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – October 22, 2007 Nigerians for Super Energy a grassroots campaign launches its first advertising campaign “Electricity is Priceless” on YouTube.

Nigerians for Super Energy Launches its First Advertising Campaign “Electricity is Priceless” on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CcbxBels6w)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CcbxBels6w


Today, Nigerians for Super Energy a grassroots campaign launches its first advertising campaign “Electricity is Priceless” on YouTube. We believe this ad will help emphasize the point to Nigeria and the world that “Energy” is “Job #1”. We can overcome poverty, unemployment, illness and digital divide by providing energy to the Nigerian people. We support Mr. President's commitment to the challenge. As Mr. President said so on June 11, 2007 and we quote “As I keep saying, we cannot begin to address, in a fundamental manner, the problems of the economy, until we successfully tackle the power and energy issue. It is critical to all my plans. So I am more interested in how much gas we can tap for domestic use than what we can get for export. We must power this economy.”

Today two things signify our current situation in Nigeria.
1.We import all of our refined product, with none of our refineries working.
2.On a good day, Nigeria is producing only 3,000+ megawatts. In January this year the power fell to 1,320 megawatts in a country of 140 million people. If you compare that with New York city with a population of 8 million people which consumed 13,400 megawatts last summer.

Nigerians for Super Energy calls for a strategic change in our energy policy. We recommend:
1.24 Refineries in a National/Publicly traded oil company with global reach.
2.50,000 megawatts in a well planned power grid.

Our Fuel strategy calls for a National Oil company to compete globally. Our role models should include Venezuelan oil company, PDVSA, Petronas Malaysian Oil company and Brazilian Oil company, Petrobras.
1.NNPC should be come a government/public firm with part of it shares allocated for Nigerians. This will provide the company with a new direction and ownership to compete in a global marketplace.
2.NNPC should go on a buying spree with the aid of government funds to buy (outright or major) shares in refineries in Africa, China and United States. This will provide us with immediate source of refined products, opportunities to train our people and hard currency. Best of all this does not need the 18 to 24 months to build a refinery. This will also provide us a stop gag measure until we build more refineries. It is all about add value and we need to start doing that.
3.Start building 4 refineries and retail outlets to take care of the local demand as estimated for 2010. This will help put to rest the fuel challenges that we face as a Nation.
Update: We thank Mr. President for listening and proposing to change the fuel policy in line with our strategy.

Our Electrical strategy recommends 50,000 megawatts in a well planned power grid, 10,000 megawatts less than Brazil (if compared on a per capita basis). When we divide 50,000 megawatts by 774 local governments, we end up with 65 megawatts as a goal. The strategy can be summarize as follows:
1.Having Local (group of) governments be the midwives of electrical power plants (to establish grassroots ownership). While a combination of Federal, State, and local governments will take lead in contributing funds to Independent/Public Power Plants. Current and Future Excess revenues must be used. for initial funding.
2. AIDS type agreement with GE and Siemens to provide 50,000 megawatts of turbines at good discounts for Nigeria.
3.All banks must invest a percentage of their net worth. Private corporations should invest and manage these power plants. Individual investors must be given opportunities to contribute (invest) by public stock participation.
4.Alternative sources of generation (coal, hydro, solar and wind) must be considered. Also conservation initiatives like compact florescent tubes should be used to increase efficiencies.

When the energy issues in Nigeria are solved, a lot of Nigerian lives will be astronomically improved. So we call on Nigerians to join this noble effort for the good of our country and children.

God Bless Nigeria!!!!

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Nigerians for Super Energy (NFSE) is a grassroots campaign aimed at supporting the need for energy in Nigeria and the sub region. 35% of all black people in the world need energy to improve their daily lives. NFSE was formed in June 2007 in the United States of America. We currently have forming strategic alliances with National Union of Electricity Employees, National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG), Independent Shareholders’ Association of Nigeria, Nigeria Union of Mine Workers (NUMW) and Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) to name a few.

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Power cuts 'embarrassing' Nigeria

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Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 16:15 GMT



The vice-president was speaking at a conference on road safety
Frequent power cuts in Nigeria have become "embarrassing", the country's vice-president has said.

Goodluck Jonathan was speaking after the lights went out at a meeting he was attending in the capital, Abuja.

During last year's election, President Umaru Yar'Adua said he would declare a "state of emergency" in the power sector but little has changed.

A senior official gave the BBC shocking details of why much vaunted improvements have had little effect.

The vice-president was speaking after a power cut at a meeting in the Sheraton International Hotel in Abuja, where dignitaries were marking the 20th anniversary of the country's road safety agency.

"It is a problem we have and we must solve. We are determined to solve it. It is not about Abuja, but the whole country and we must get out of this embarrassing situation," he said.

President Yar'Adua fired his special assistant on power, Foluseke Somolu, last week local media reported. Mr Somolu served in the same position in the last government of Olusegun Obasanjo.

On Tuesday he announced a new target of increasing the amount of power generated to 6000 megawatts within 18 months.


NIGERIA POWER SHORTAGES
Produces 3,000 megawatts of electricity
Needs at least 8000 megawatts
10 existing power stations running at very low capacity

The government has spent $16 billion dollars on building new power stations and trying to fix transmission grids in the last nine years, the speaker of the House of Representatives said last month.

But six power stations - already paid for by the government - are yet to be completed years after they were begun, a member of the committee set up to reform the power industry told the BBC.

Eighteen turbines worth $3 billion are sitting untouched in a Lagos port because the government has no way of moving them to the site of the power stations, he said.:bash::bash:

"It's been an embarrassment for nearly a decade. Some of the construction work on the stations is so delayed that after six years they have not even finished building the foundations," said the committee member, who did not want to be identified.

"Only the president knows what the next move is," he added.

Gas flaring

A further three power stations have been completed, but have insufficient gas to power them.

At the same time oil companies burn off gas from onshore well heads, causing environmental distress to the communities who live in the oil-rich Delta region.

President Yar'Adua has issued deadlines to oil companies to stop "flaring" the gas, but some have tried to push them back.

A new contract to supply gas to the power stations is being finalised.

Nigeria currently has 10 power stations - they are all between 20 and 30 years old.

"The necessary maintenance work was never done," an inside source said.

In the meantime, businesses and many homes rely on their generators.

Many businesses say diesel represents about a third of their costs.

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Govt needs N150bn for 100,000Mw by 2015 | Print | E-mail
Written by Ben Agande & Kingsley Omonobi
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
THE Federal Government requires a total investment of $150 billion to raise the country’s electricity generation by 100,000 megawatts by 2015 as part of efforts to realise the Vision 2020 dream.

Government also plans to increase tariffs paid by electricity consumers in the country by next month because the N6.00 per kilowatt currently paid by consumers is considered low by private investors, who are being wooed to invest in the power sector..

Mrs Fatimah Ibrahim, Minister of State for Energy (Power), speaking yesterday at the Nigerian Oil and Gas Conference in Abuja said the country’s economy had the potential of surpassing that of Italy by the year 2015, as President Umaru Yar’Adua’s seven-point agenda places the energy sector top.

Her words: “Recent studies have indicated that at 13 percent growth rate, that is, the rate which the country’s economy has to grow if we are to attain our 2020 vision, we will need at least 100,000 mega watts by the year 2015 and not less than 290,000Mw by 2020,” she said.

She lamented that South Africa with 40 million people generates 36,000Mw and Iran with half Nigeria’s population, generates 45,000Mw, while Nigeria generates only 4361Mw.

“We are saying that for us to reach this level of comfort for power supply, Nigeria would need nothing less than a $150 billion investment to generate 100,000Mw. Now, what are the key sector indicators and the challenges of the sector?

“Currently, we have 14 available generating plants — three hydro and 11 thermal — with an installed capacity of 7,876Mw. But the available capacity is 4361Mw, while output is just about 3000Mw.

Most of these plants, of course, have very low availability partly because of limitations in gas supply but in most cases also because of the current status of these plants.

Most of them are at least 20 years old and unfortunately to our chagrin, in these 20 years, some of them have never had a turn around maintenance. So, you can imagine the status of the industry,” she explained.

The minister also said government had held discussions with stakeholders to review the tariff structure by next month.

According to her, investors are complaining that the present tariff structure does not support profitable investment.

“Now, we are all aware that power is a highly capital intensive venture and one of our major challenges, of course, is the capital cost of power installation because you need from generation to transmission at least $1.5 million per megawatt.

Another challenge for us is the lead time, because in most cases you need at least two years to install plant or a transmission line and for hydro powers.

Of course, it takes a minimum of five years for the kind of hydro power we envisage, that is, of about 2,600 Mw, but our major constraint so far, is the gas supply availability. In spite of all the gas deposits in this country, we are not able to satisfy the demand of the domestic market.

“About three weeks ago, for more than six hours, we could only generate 1000Mw, because of non availability of gas and most of our installed plants cannot operate beyond 50 per cent.

The new plants we have — Geregu, Omotosho, Papalanto — and the rest cannot give more than 50 per cent of their available capacity,” the minister further explained.

The minister said government needed the intervention of the private sector as the cost of power infrastructure was very prohibitive.

According to her, for the country to develop the partnership with the private sector, there is the need to develop a competitive model to attract private investors.

“The major thing we are doing now is finalising the Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO). Now, what is this MYTO?

It is a price setting model for generation, transmission and distribution that will ensure fair price charge to consumers and allow the operators to adequately finance their activities. Right now, the tariff is considered very low.

“At about N6.00 per kilowatt per hour, investors are saying that with this kind of tariff, there is no way bankers can come in and there is no way they can recoup their investment within reasonable time.

Discussions have been held with all the stakeholders in the industry and outside the industry, so that by March 2008, we can finalise the MYTO and this will make a huge difference in the power sector,” the minister said.

[Artemis]

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MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – October 22, 2007 Nigerians for Super Energy a grassroots campaign launches its first advertising campaign “Electricity is Priceless” on YouTube.

Nigerians for Super Energy Launches its First Advertising Campaign “Electricity is Priceless” on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CcbxBels6w)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CcbxBels6w


Today, Nigerians for Super Energy a grassroots campaign launches its first advertising campaign “Electricity is Priceless” on YouTube. We believe this ad will help emphasize the point to Nigeria and the world that “Energy” is “Job #1”. We can overcome poverty, unemployment, illness and digital divide by providing energy ..... :blahblah:

whats is this all about? sometimes your "campaign" let those 419 scam warnings come to my mind. you need money or what?? so well lets see your detail plans or is this all you can offer us??