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Agency To Establish Clean Cookstove Design
The International Centre for Energy and Environment Development (ICEED) is to establish a Clean Cook Stove Design and Testing Centre at Akanu Ibiam Polytechnic, Afikpo, Ebonyi State.
Clean stoves use limited wood, coal, biomass and solar, in order to reduce green house gas.
It will be recalled that ICEED had proposed to introduce 10 million cook-stoves to Nigerian homes by 2020, to reduce the high death toll attributed to poisonous emissions from the use of firewood.
The ICEED, in partnership with the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN), would provide stove producers, users and other relevant stakeholders, the opportunity to confidently compare stove performance and safety.
The Executive Director ICEED, Mr Ewah Eleri, while briefing newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, said that the plan was to provide a common set of terminology for clean cook stoves, for easier understanding.
Eleri assured stove producers, marketers and users of quality product, to enable stove users know that they were making worthwhile investments.
He gave the assurance that the stoves would be affordable.
Eleri, said that World Health Organisation report, said that poisonous emissions from the use of firewood and charcoal was amongst the top four causes of death in Nigeria.
The report said that the emission accounted for the death of more than 90,000 Nigerians annually.
Also speaking, Prof. Eli Bala, acting Director-General, ECN, also pledged support for the clean stove initiative.
Bala, represented by Dr Roseline Keila, Energy Coordinator in the commission, said that Nigeria, was blessed with abundant energy resources.
She said that the country was also blessed with huge savings opportunity in all sectors of economy, which could be exploited and transformed into fuels and heat.
Bala, however, explained that the domestic energy utilisation in Nigeria was done with repulsively inefficient devices, thus leading to relentless energy wastage.
“The annual blazing of firewood in Nigeria is estimated at about 21.7 billion kg utilised principally for cooking and other domestic functions.
“Out of these, only about 20 per cent is gainfully expended due to gross inefficiency in our cooking systems.
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