Title : Deploying nanotech for sustainable energy transition in Nigeria
Abstract:
Nanotech is a buzz word for modern technological advancement and breakthroughs globally.This is due to its application and adoption in sectors where conventional technology could not achieve much progress. Such sectors include but not limited to Energy, Environment ,Health care Biotechnology among others.Energy is the engine that drives modern development globally.However, energy development and uses had been seriously implicated in the orgy of Environmental pollution, Biodiversity depletion and Climate degradation. It is on account of this that the global community seeks for a just energy transition from the highly carbonised energy regime to a more sustainable energy governance.
Nigeria's economic development and advancement over the years hinged on energy resouce development, particularly the petroleum sector.Again, the development of this sector in Nigeria had never been without some negative environmental footprints due to bad resource governance.
Nigeria equally seeks to transit from this ugly past to a more robust energy use and development which is not only sustainable but anchored on a new set of technology that is more efficient, and smart .Nanotech with all its innovations and trappings promises to be useful and handy for Nigeria if the science ,technology and application of Nanotech can be aggressively pursued through a deliberate injection and development of Nano legal and regulatory framework at a more commercial level.
This paper seeks to examine the hindrances to the commercial deployment of Nanotech for meeting Nigeria's quest for a sustainable energy development in the light of a just energy transition scenario advocated globally.
