The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPC will begin the installation of electric vehicle charging ports in its filling stations nationwide to boost Nigeria’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
Managing Director, NNPC New Energy Limited, Mr. Kanayochukwu Odoe, who disclosed this in the company’s quarterly publication released on Monday, explained that the energy firm was also working with a start-up in Maiduguri, Borno, state to expand the manufacture of electric cars in the country.
He noted that if Nigeria were to be able to compete with its peers globally, it would need to invest in human capacity, technological capacity development and expansion in order to achieve the net zero carbon target set for 2060 by the federal government.
Pointing out that the use and deployment of electric vehicles have come to stay, the NNPC unit managing director explained that the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) has now placed the NNPC with some certain responsibilities including investing in renewable energies and to make renewable energy a business that would attend to demands here in Nigeria and those with respect to some of the treaties and conventions the country has signed globally.
He noted that Nigeria must be able to meet the demand by developing capacity to provide power to those in the rural areas with renewable energy sources like solar.
He also added that the NNPC is also currently working on a bio-diesel plant in Cross River State and has signed an agreement with Kebbi State for a bio-ethanol plant.
