From Potential to Power: Advancing Nigeria’s Energy Sector through Renewable Integration and Policy Reform

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 16(20), P. 8803 - 8803

Published: Oct. 11, 2024

Nigeria is a nation endowed with both abundant renewable and non-renewable energy resources. Despite its vast potential, struggles consistent power supply due to various systemic issues, such as inadequate funding, infrastructural decay, corruption, technical skill shortages, macroeconomic instability. These challenges hinder the effective harnessing distribution of resources, particularly ones like wind, solar, biomass, hydropower. This study assesses existing policies their efficacy in promoting sustainable development towards achieving universal electricity access by 2030. It highlights necessity for just transition that integrates substantial proportion into national grid, aiming meet up 60% country’s demands clean sources 2050. critical not only security reducing environmental impact but also fostering socioeconomic equity. Recommendations include overhauling legal regulatory frameworks support growth, off-grid areas, ensure clean, affordable, secure access. Strategic investments, enhanced infrastructure, robust public–private partnerships are essential overcome current barriers realize Nigeria’s potential. paper calls comprehensive approach addresses dimensions crisis, laying groundwork prosperous future Nigeria.

Language: Английский

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Collaborative Interface Optimization Strategy Guided Fe3C/MnO-NC Electrocatalysts for Rechargeable Flexible Zinc-Air Batteries

Applied Catalysis B Environment and Energy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 124615 - 124615

Published: Sept. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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Rational Design of Bimetal Nanoparticles Anchored Hierarchical Carbon Nanospheres with Abundant Active Sites for High-Performance Liquid/Flexible Zinc-Air Batteries

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

The development of highly active bifunctional electrocatalysts is crucial to the sluggish oxygen reduction reaction/oxygen evolution reaction (ORR/OER) for efficient wearable Zn–air batteries (ZAB). Fe-Nx-C moieties anchored on carbon supports emerge as a desirable alternative ORR catalysts but its OER activity suffers from low catalytic performance and stability. Herein, N-doped carbon-encapsulated Fe3C MnO nanoparticles composite (FeMn-NC) was developed using simple one-step pyrolysis self-sacrificial template. obtained FeMn-NC possess hierarchical porous structure with large specific surface area rich pyridinic N, which are favorable exposure sites. introduction Fe3C/MnO interface can regulate charge redistribution promote ORR/OER kinetics, confirmed by theoretical calculations. exhibits an excellent in alkaline electrolytes.The assembled liquid ZAB cathode achieve ultrahigh capacity 831.7 mAh g-1 charge-discharged stability up 800 h at 10 mA cm⁻² (2400 cycles). Furthermore, corresponding flexible solid-state provides stable open-circuit voltage 1.50 V 676.1 g−1 1.0 cm-2 good cycling This work offers strategy synthesize materials properties, be applied other electrochemical energy devices.

Language: Английский

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Comparative Techno-Economic Analysis of Gray Hydrogen Production Costs: A Case Study

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(2), P. 547 - 547

Published: Jan. 12, 2025

Despite Iran’s considerable renewable energy (RE) potential and excellent wind capacity high solar radiation levels, these sources contribute only a small fraction of the country’s total production. This paper addresses techno-economic viability gray hydrogen production by renewables, with particular focus on energy. Given strategic location Shahrekord, it would be an optimal site for generation plant integrated field. HOMER Pro 3.18.3 software was utilized to model optimize levelized cost (LCOH) steam reforming using different hydrocarbons in various scenarios. The results this study indicate that natural gas (NG) represents most cost-effective method city, LCOH −0.423 USD/kg. Other such as diesel, gasoline, propane, methanol, ethanol have price per kilogram produced follows: USD −0.4, −0.293, 1.17, 1.48, 2.15. In addition, integrating RE into found viable. Moreover, implementing technologies, CO2 emissions can significantly reduced, security achieved.

Language: Английский

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Contemporary advancements and prospective outlook on feasible lithium-ion batteries based on silicon anodes

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 1014, P. 178763 - 178763

Published: Jan. 22, 2025

Language: Английский

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Exploring Hf-mediated surface engineering to enhance Co3O4/Ag2S core-shell nanorods as bifunctional electrocatalysts for water splitting reaction

Fuel, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 392, P. 134752 - 134752

Published: Feb. 27, 2025

Language: Английский

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Rational construction of Tremella-like CuCo LDH@Ni3S2 nanocomposites as high-performance supercapacitor electrode materials

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 179586 - 179586

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Fine-tuning electronic structure of S-NiMoO4 coupled with NiFe-layered double hydroxides for enhanced electrochemical water oxidation

Journal of Power Sources, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 640, P. 236699 - 236699

Published: March 14, 2025

Language: Английский

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Coulomb repulsion strategy synergizes electronic effects to facilitate efficient H2 production from alkaline seawater

Fuel, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 399, P. 135677 - 135677

Published: May 16, 2025

Language: Английский

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Abundant Amorphous/Crystalline Interfaces of C/A-Ni_xP/NiOH Heterojunction Catalyst for Efficient Urea Oxidation Reaction

Langmuir, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: May 16, 2025

Replacing the kinetically slow oxygen evolution reaction (OER) with urea electro-oxidation significantly reduces energy requirement for electrolysis of water. However, designing and optimizing efficient electrocatalysts industrial application oxidation coupled to hydrogen production remains a challenge. Herein, we construct C/A-NixP/NiOH heterojunction catalyst actually abundant amorphous/crystalline interfaces (UOR) by an interfacial-sequential treatment method electrodeposition low-temperature gas-phase phosphatization on carbon cloth (CC). Remarkably, in UOR, required only 1.332 V reach current density 10 mA cm-2 negligible potential decay over 12 h. The excellent performance is attributed synergistic interaction between inner amorphous NiOH layer outer crystalline NixP layer, as well interface, interfacial structure that can expose more active sites enhance intrinsic activity, thus improving kinetics stability UOR. This work paves way development low-cost high-efficiency catalysts oxidation.

Language: Английский

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