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Leverage on emerging technologies to boost power supply — Expert

An energy expert, Mr Adebayo Johnson, on Friday said that leveraging on emerging technologies would boost the efficiency of the country’s power sector.

Speaking on the sideline of Power Nigeria 2019 Conference and Exhibition in Lagos, Johnson said technologies such as Block chain, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning were being utilised in the power sector globally.

He urged Nigeria to fully integrate these technologies in the nation’s energy mix.

”These are existing technologies that we are not using today, and they amount to waste of the limited supply of energy resources that we have in the grid.

”Today we have a smart grid even at a global level, smart grid is operational, but then this is not fully operational in Nigerian grid,” the energy expert said.

Johnson who is General Manager, PowerPro Company Limited, said that digitalisation had disrupted the energy sector and the energy value chain would further be disrupted as technology advanced.

According to him, digitalisation means better outcome for the utility sector, hence, should be embraced.

”So some of the digital technologies that we have today are machine learning, artificial intelligence.

”Machine learning is already making wave in the technology industry, and I tell you that this can change the landscape totally for us in the energy sector.

”With digitalisation, our physical assets, our grid assets will be gradually integrated onto a platform where we can collect data from them, where we can analyse data from them and where we can respond to the data collected from this physical platform.

”With this integration, the future energy systems will be able to intelligently manage demands from buildings, demand from vehicles, and other infrastructure and it will be able to ensure there is a seamless supply of energy to these locations,” he said.

Mr Gareth Rapley, Group Exhibition Director of Informa Markets, organizer of the expo, said that Power Nigeria was in its eight editions in Nigeria.

Rapley said that over 130 companies from 24 countries across the value chain within the power and electricity sector participated in the programme.

He said that digitalisation was the front of many companies’ agenda, not just in the power sector, but across all industries.

”There are many areas that come into digital transformation and we are just at the beginning of that journey, over the coming years, companies are going to start to implement,” Rapley said.

 

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