TY - JOUR
T1 - An approach for sustainable energy planning towards 100 % electrification of Nigeria by 2030
AU - Bamisile, Olusola
AU - Huang, Qi
AU - Xu, Xiao
AU - Hu, Weihao
AU - Liu, Wen
AU - Liu, Zhou
AU - Chen, Zhe
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant No. 2018YFB0905200 and Sichuan Youth Science and Technology Innovation Team Fund under Grant No. 2017TD0009 .
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© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
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PY - 2020/4
Y1 - 2020/4
N2 - Electricity generation, transmission, and distribution have jointly constituted a major challenge in Nigeria for decades. Currently, approximately 41% of the country's citizens have no access to electricity. In this study, an economically viable, renewable, and sustainable plan to achieve 100% electrification in Nigeria by 2030 is presented. The use of natural gas (NG), wind onshore (WON), wind offshore, photovoltaic (PV), concentrated solar power, and hydro-power plants was analyzed. Pumped hydro-storage is the only electricity storage system considered in this study. A total of 99 different scenarios resulting from the combination of the aforementioned technologies were considered. The initial investment, total annual cost, share of renewable energy, carbon emissions, and electricity production of each of the scenarios were analyzed. A one-year analysis based on hourly time-step was conducted using EnergyPLAN. Power production importation and critical excess electricity production are the deterministic factors in this study. The electricity demand in Nigeria is estimated to be 200 TWh/yr by 2030. A NG capacity of 36,000 MW will be required to meet this demand if a single power technology is implemented. The most sustainable plan is the use of combined NG and PV or NG and WON to meet the electricity demand.
AB - Electricity generation, transmission, and distribution have jointly constituted a major challenge in Nigeria for decades. Currently, approximately 41% of the country's citizens have no access to electricity. In this study, an economically viable, renewable, and sustainable plan to achieve 100% electrification in Nigeria by 2030 is presented. The use of natural gas (NG), wind onshore (WON), wind offshore, photovoltaic (PV), concentrated solar power, and hydro-power plants was analyzed. Pumped hydro-storage is the only electricity storage system considered in this study. A total of 99 different scenarios resulting from the combination of the aforementioned technologies were considered. The initial investment, total annual cost, share of renewable energy, carbon emissions, and electricity production of each of the scenarios were analyzed. A one-year analysis based on hourly time-step was conducted using EnergyPLAN. Power production importation and critical excess electricity production are the deterministic factors in this study. The electricity demand in Nigeria is estimated to be 200 TWh/yr by 2030. A NG capacity of 36,000 MW will be required to meet this demand if a single power technology is implemented. The most sustainable plan is the use of combined NG and PV or NG and WON to meet the electricity demand.
KW - Critical excess electricity production
KW - EnergyPLAN
KW - Nigeria
KW - Power production
KW - Renewables
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U2 - 10.1016/j.energy.2020.117172
DO - 10.1016/j.energy.2020.117172
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85080087268
SN - 0360-5442
VL - 197
JO - Energy
JF - Energy
M1 - 117172
ER -