Abstract
That energy is an important development factor is now common knowledge. Without energy, services and societal activities will virtually grind to a halt. In Nigeria, there are several federal and state universities that receive their funding from the government. Because of their peculiar nature as knowledge-transfer-based institutions, the energy source predominantly in use in the universities is electricity. Therefore, the issues of electric energy availability, consumption and costs in universities with resident students and staff quarters can present a formidable challenge to any responsible administration. Due to the inadequate and epileptic supply of electricity in our universities, this paper establishes the need for baseline energy consumption profile in the Universities as a framework for future energy savings scheme and policy formation. This will help to identify where energy is being wasted, together with appropriate energy efficiency measures that can be considered in order to reduce energy consumption, costs and mitigate associated environmental externalities.
Highlights
Electricity is fundamental and inevitable to our daily living as it lightens our environment, powers our homes, schools, hospitals, offices, businesses, and promotes industrialization
Energy efficiency is a concept expressed by a set of measures or the effects of these measures whose objective is a reduction of energy consumption such that consumer satisfaction is maintained
In Nigeria, there is a lack of sufficient organized research materials and data that will guide the development of policy and legislation that will strengthen the efficient use of energy
Summary
Electricity is fundamental and inevitable to our daily living as it lightens our environment, powers our homes, schools, hospitals, offices, businesses, and promotes industrialization. Universities in Nigeria are designed like a small-scale town where staff and students largely reside within the learning environment In this regard, housing infrastructure and other facilities necessary for teaching and research are developed and provided for within the envelope. Advances in renewable energy technology ( solar energy) have opened a broader window of opportunities to address some of the energy issues in some critical service areas in the Universities This can be adequately addressed only if the levels of energy use in such cost centres are methodologically assessed, the need for energy benchmarking in order to provide a framework for possible energy policy in the Universities in Nigeria. International Journal of Advances in Scientific Research and Engineering (ijasre), Vol 5 (8), August-2019
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