Not There Yet: Mapping Inhibitions to Solar Energy Utilisation by Households in African Informal Urban Neighbourhoods

Barau, Aliyu Salisu; Abubakar, Aliyu Haidar; Kiyawa, Abdul-Hakim Ibrahim

doi:10.3390/su12030840

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“…A household reflection on the installation of solar PV system was conducted via interview in Kano metropolitan area. Respondent were found to adopt solar energy for recharging purposes, cooling system and lighting (Barau et al, 2020). Then, a questionnaire was administered in Ibadan to show usage of solar PV system in Oyo State by considering schools, households and industries.…”

Section: Assessment Of Solar Irradiance In Nigeriamentioning

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Prospects of Solar Energy Exploration in Nigeria: Assessments, Economic Viability and Hybrid System

Idris,

Ibrahim,

Alibani

2024

IJEEP

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The recent happenings in the world such as flood and wild forest fire were as a result of climate effect as being envisaged by scientists. It is urgent now to adopt a source of energy that will eliminate this effect on our universe. Solar energy is the major energy means that is abundant which could be utilized. In this review, the prospects of solar energy exploration were studied in Nigeria which include assessments, economic viability and hybrid systems. Findings show higher potential in the North as compared to the Southern region. Additionally, potential of offshore solar energy system was simulated by considering 2002 to 2021 data sets (20 years) from Era5-land base. Their monthly mean, seasonal changes and annual mean value were estimated. The algebraic annual solar radiance for 2002 and 2003 were highest valued at 34,914.732 kWhm_2 while the least occurred in 2008 as 26,967.168 kWhm-2. Suggestions were made due to the present status of solar energy utilization that will enhance its maximum usage and development. One of these is the establishment of a functioning financial scheme and the database for all renewable energy systems. When all these are put in place, the energy supply will increase, climate effect will be reduced, and the economy will be boosted.

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Section: Assessment Of Solar Irradiance In Nigeriamentioning

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Prospects of Solar Energy Exploration in Nigeria: Assessments, Economic Viability and Hybrid System

Idris,

Ibrahim,

Alibani

2024

IJEEP

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“…A household reflection on the installation of solar PV system was conducted via interview in Kano metropolitan area. Respondent were found to adopt solar energy for recharging purposes, cooling system and lighting [54]. Then, a questionnaire was administered in Ibadan to show usage of solar PV system in Oyo State by considering schools, households and industries.…”

Section: Assessment Of Solar Irradiance In Nigeriamentioning

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The Trend of Solar Energy Utilization and Its Offshore Assessment in Nigeria

Idris,

Ibrahim,

Alibani

2023

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The recent happenings in the world such as flood and wild forest fire were as a result of climate effect as being envisaged by scientists. It is urgent now to adopt a source of energy that will eliminate this effect on our universe. Solar energy is the major energy means that is abundant which could be utilized. In this review, the prospects of solar energy exploration were studied in Nigeria which include assessments, economic viability and hybrid systems. Findings show higher potential in the North as compared to the Southern region. Additionally, potential of offshore solar energy system was simulated by considering 2002, 2003 and 2004 data sets from Era5-land base. Their monthly mean, seasonal changes and annual mean value were estimated. The algebraic annual solar radiance for 2002, 2003 and 2004 were 34,914.732 kWh/m2, 33,898.316 kWh/m2 and 34,338.324 kWh/m2. Suggestions were made due to the present status of solar energy utilization that will enhance its maximum usage and development. One of these is the establishment of a functioning financial scheme and the database for all renewable energy systems. When all these are put in place, the energy supply will increase, climate effect will be reduced, and the economy will be boosted.

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“…Urban areas in Africa typically offer much higher levels of electrification than rural regions, yet grid-connected residential and commercial PV use remains low (27). Net metering opportunities remain limited throughout most of the continent, though some legislation is reported to have commenced in Morocco, Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya (28).…”

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Opportunities and challenges for scaling agrivoltaics in rural and Urban Africa

MacDonald¹,

Probst²,

Cladera³

2022

AGRIVOLTAICS2021 CONFERENCE: Connecting Agrivoltaics Worldwide

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Crop Area Integrated Photovoltaics (CAIPV) systems yield electricity and crops on the same area of land. Most CAIPV research and commercial activity over the last decade has taken place in temperate countries of the Global North; activity in Africa has been comparatively very limited. Depending on several factors, the shade from the PV arrays may cause crop yields to decrease, increase, or remain close to control. It is expected that yields of many crops would increase on sunny arid sites in Africa. This paper seeks to quantify and compare CAIPV's two yield components (electricity and food) under different scenarios in the African context, with a close look at potential CAIPV integration into PV mini-grids. Metrics of PV energy generation and demand are contrasted with crop yield and demand, and it is shown that the PV surface area required to meet electricity needs of most Africans is dwarfed by the corresponding land area needed for crops to meet nutritional needs. As PV area corresponds to crop area in CAIPV, it becomes clear that per capita food yields of projects will only make a miniscule contribution to local nutrition if distributed equally amongst all users of a mini-grid. Corollary agricultural benefits of mini-grids such as food refrigeration and electrified crop processing are noted to be attributed solely to the PV electricity, and have no relation to the shade provided by the PV arrays. Nevertheless, it is shown that significant quantities of food and jobs may be created if CAIPV systems can increase their surface area by securing large energy offtakers, whether in the form of off-grid industrial clients, via on-grid feed-in tariff schemes, or even future possibilities of large-scale PV-to-fuel intercontinental export operations. In all cases, policy support is urged in building the educational, legal, and financial frameworks to facilitate such scaling.

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Not There Yet: Mapping Inhibitions to Solar Energy Utilisation by Households in African Informal Urban Neighbourhoods

Cited by 20 publications

References 35 publications

Prospects of Solar Energy Exploration in Nigeria: Assessments, Economic Viability and Hybrid System

Prospects of Solar Energy Exploration in Nigeria: Assessments, Economic Viability and Hybrid System

The Trend of Solar Energy Utilization and Its Offshore Assessment in Nigeria

Opportunities and challenges for scaling agrivoltaics in rural and Urban Africa

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