{"id":64394,"date":"2025-04-17T09:31:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T09:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64394"},"modified":"2025-04-17T09:31:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T09:31:41","slug":"expert-warns-against-solar-ban-without-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/17\/expert-warns-against-solar-ban-without-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Warns against Solar Ban Without Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Energy expert Theophilus Nweke has raised serious concerns over the federal government&#8217;s plan to prohibit solar panel imports, describing the policy as premature and lacking technical grounding.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the 2025 Lagos Energy Summit, Nweke, Chief Executive Officer of Cloud Energy, said the policy could cripple the sector since Nigeria does not yet have the capacity to manufacture key components like solar wafers and cells.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative, announced by Minister of Science and Technology Uche Nnaji through the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, is aimed at promoting local production under Presidential Executive Order Number Five.<\/p>\n<p>But Nweke insisted that without the necessary infrastructure, the move may cause more harm than good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost local companies still rely on imported parts to meet demand. Banning imports now is like cutting off the fuel supply before the engine starts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the government to foster private sector involvement by setting up a renewable energy intervention fund, similar to the agricultural credit scheme, to scale up access and investment in solar projects nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>He maintained that the path to energy independence requires strategy, not sentiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Energy expert Theophilus Nweke has raised serious concerns over the federal government&#8217;s plan to prohibit solar panel imports, describing the policy as premature and lacking technical grounding. Speaking at the 2025 Lagos Energy Summit, Nweke, Chief Executive Officer of Cloud Energy, said the policy could cripple the sector since Nigeria does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64394","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\/64394","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64396,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64394\/revisions\/64396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}