Sustainable Power: Impact of Generator Driven Economy on the Environment

Abstract

Nigeria's largely inadequate power generation has dropped by 300mw, from
2200mw to 1900mw. The acute electricity supply hinders the country's development;
notwithstanding the availability of vast natural resources in the country while only about
40% of the population of the country has access to electricity. The 60 percent of the
population therefore has to depend on generators which use fossil fuel for their power.
Fossil fuel combustion for electric power generation is responsible for 65% of all emissions
of sulfur dioxide, the main component of acid rain. Electricity generation is the fourth
highest combined source of Nox, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter. These emissions
including carbon dioxide are the major contributor to climate change, environmental
problems in the paper and causes health problems (breathing and cancers). As a result of
the environmental problems associated with fossil fuel and generator use there is need for
sustainable power consciousness.