Stakeholders in the Energy sector held a Policy Dialogue on the importation procedures for renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies on Thursday with the aim of easing the bottlenecks in the importation of renewable energy technologies.
The Head of Programme at Nigerian Energy Support Programme (NESP), Duke Benjamin, said in 2015, that the Federal Executive Council approved the National Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policy.
He said part of the recommendations in the policy is the establishment of a task force that will support the FastTrack of the policy, specifically under the special Customs Clearance for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technology.
Benjamin, who was represented by Joshua Yari Garba, Component Lead, Enabling Environment for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficient Investment, said NESP, co-funded by the European Union and GIZ in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Power, has been supporting the sector in terms of implementation and fostering investment in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and rural electrification.
“As part of our support, we are supporting the Federal Government in ensuring that there is a special kind of Customs Clearance for Renewable energy and energy efficiency, and in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Nigerian Customs Service, we are supporting to see how we can develop a guideline and a handbook that will support importers and developers of Renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies, supporting them so that they will be able to understand the processes for the importation of these technologies,”, he said.
Benjamin further stated that Customs requested that NESP support the development of a guideline and a handbook that will support these importers and developers.
“We will develop the capacity of Nigerian Customs officers to be able to identify Renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
It is apt for the kind of support we will give them so that once they identify some of these technologies, they can differentiate between the one for Renewable energy and the one for ordinary use”, he noted.
He said the Policy Dialogue is for stakeholders to discuss the policies, the process of importation, and the incentives that the Federal Government has put in place for either importers or manufacturers in terms of the duty and tax the importers and developers will pay.
On the local production of renewable energy technologies, Benjamin said there is a provision for local manufacturing in the policy.
He said the Federal government, through the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment, has put in place mechanisms that will encourage investment.
He further explained that the Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) is also working hard to bring in investors, and NESP has gone ahead to begin to develop the capacity for local manufacturing here in Nigeria.
Professor Abubakar Sambo, Former Director General, Energy Commission of Nigeria, said with the new Electricity Act that was passed into law in June this year and the urgent need for Nigeria to use renewable energy on a large scale, and given the fact that Nigeria doesn’t locally produce the components of using renewable energy, there has to be some importation.
Professor Sambo, who is from the Faculty of Engineering and Environmental Design at Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto, said the stakeholders’ meeting became necessary to ensure all the bottlenecks for importing quality components for the use of renewable energy are addressed and resolved.
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