{"id":29781,"date":"2024-05-01T23:53:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T23:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=29781"},"modified":"2024-05-01T23:53:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T23:53:04","slug":"cng-a-game-changer-for-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/01\/cng-a-game-changer-for-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"CNG: A Game-Changer for Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A safety policy document on 80 standards and regulations that must be strictly adhered to by operators has been developed and approved to ensure CNG conversions are done safely and reliably.<\/p>\n<p>The deployment of CNG buses and tricycles and the vision to get at least one million natural gas propelled vehicles on our roads by 2027 will mark a major energy transition in our country\u2019s transportation industry. The plan is gradually phase out the use of more expensive diesel and PMS. The reasoning behind that are many including the abundance of natural gas in almost all the states of \u00a0the federation and the need to comply with green energy targets.<\/p>\n<p>Green energy exponent says one of the main causes of air pollution is primarily the amount of gases emitted by gasoline and diesel engines. Already countries such as India, China Iran, Pakistan, Brazil, Argentina, Italy have built fleets of natural gas powered vehicles, instead of going the route of relying on liquid petroleum products propelled vehicles. Natural gas vehicles reduce tail pipe emission by up to 40 percent,l and Nigeria\u2019s commitment to this course will enable her meet her nationally determined commitments (NDCs) under Paris Climate Accord to which we are signatory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remarkable milestones on the journey to CNG implementation in Nigeria according to Presidential Information release include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four plants owned by JET, Mikano, Mojo and Brilliant EV located in various parts of the country are involved in the assembly of the Semi Knocked Down (SKD) components of the CNG buses.<\/li>\n<li>JET, which has received the SKD parts is coupling the buses in Lagos and is working towards delivering 200 units before the first anniversary of the Tinubu administration.<\/li>\n<li>Brilliant EV will assemble electric vehicles, it is awaiting the SKD parts, which will arrive in due course. The electric vehicles it will produce are meant for states such as Kano and Brono, l which do not have access to CNG for now. They will also be available in key Nigerian cities and university campuses.<\/li>\n<li>It must be noted that soon to be completed gas pipeline projects initiated by the Buhari administration and being completed by NNPCL (the AKK Pipeline) will take gas into the hinterlands of North East and North West where there is current paucity.<\/li>\n<li>In all, over 600 buses are targeted for production in the first phase that will be accomplished this year.<\/li>\n<li>A new plant on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway will assemble thousands of tricycle. The SKD parts manufactured by the Chinese company LUOJIA in partnership with its local partner to support the consortium of local suppliers of CNG tricycles are set for shipment to Nigeria and expected to arrive early in May. About 2,500 of the tricycles will be ready before May 29, 2024.<\/li>\n<li>Thousands sof conversion kits for petrol powered buses and taxis that want to migrate to CNG are also ready with CNG cylinders.<\/li>\n<li>The Federal Government intends to provide them at subsidized rates, especially to commercial vehicle drivers to bring down the cost of public transportation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PRIVATE SECTOR COLLABORATION WITH REFILL SERVICES ARE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NIPCO: 32 stations<\/li>\n<li>BOVAS: 8 stations<\/li>\n<li>MRS: To announce locations soon.<\/li>\n<li>The NNPC Limited which had launched an on-and-off CNG initiative in the past is joining the new initiative. It is expected soon to announce the locations for CNG refilling and CNG conversion centres nationwide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>REGULATION AND MONITORING<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The PCNGI is collaborating with 22 other partners to provide proper regulation of the value chain in what will certainly become a booming industry. They include the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON). The Nigeria Automotive Design and Development Council is to deliver 80 Natural Gas Vehicle Conversion and Associated Appliances Standards for the country.<\/li>\n<li>PCNGI will also launch MYCNG.NG App. The App will embed the Nigeria Gas Vehicle Monitoring Systems, which will show CNG conversion and refueling sites in the country.<\/li>\n<li>The Tinubu administration\u2019s is an enabler of the evolving CNG industry. In collaboration with the private sector, the PCNGI is set to deliver 100 workshops and 60 refueling sites spread across 18 states before the end of this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A safety policy document on 80 standards and regulations that must be strictly adhered to by operators has been developed and approved to ensure CNG conversions are done safely and reliably. The deployment of CNG buses and tricycles and the vision to get at least one million natural gas propelled vehicles on our roads by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":29782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-29781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29783,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29781\/revisions\/29783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}