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INDEPENDENT POWER GENERATION FOR SOUTHWEST NIGERIA – IPGSN
a few years ago ...
In 2004, a group of three students from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and two students from the Pennsylvania State University, USA worked on a research project titled ‘Solar Energy for Rural Nigeria (SERN)’. The project was a participation in the 2004 UNESCO/DiamlerChrysler Mondialogo Engineering programme. Debo Onifade led the University of Ibadan student team while Greg Rybka of the Pennsylvania State University was the overall team lead. One of the objectives of the project organizers was to foster a continued multi-cultural and international collaborations among the student participants even after the project period. This in turn was expected to bring about technological growth to some developing countries in a near future, and the project teams were therefore made up of members from a developed country and a developing country.
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the concept …
After Debo’s graduation and subsequent employment, he kept his friendship with Greg and the two of them agreed to do more research together in a near future, especially with a fundamental view of tackling a serious technological and industrial problem in Nigeria.
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the opportunity …
One major predicament that has greatly hindered
development in Nigeria and indeed
most parts of Africa had been lack of adequate and good electricity supply. The Nigerian government recently liberalized the industry, giving room for direct private sector participation and opening up tremendous research and business opportunities for upcoming engineers. Debo saw this as a great opportunity it formed the genesis of IPGSN in November 2006. Team formation and researh work commenced thereafter.
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today …
e-Peak Systems Ltd will be the parent organization of the IPGSN project, as we try to collaborate with other essential part players from the
United States, South Africa and
Nigeria, including companies, NGOs, and government.
Profile of the current members of the IPGSN team …
Profile of the current members of the IPGSN project team can be found in the web links below:
the vision …
The IPGSN shares similar vision with its parent organization and it is ‘to transform Nigeria through technology’.
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the mission …
- To produce an innovative and apt technical design and business plan for a minimum
100MW power station in Southwest Nigeria, and other parts of Nigeria and Africa
- To attain the above feat through intense research work, international collaborations,
government participation and private sector ownership, taking into consideration
pertinent issues like sustainability, reliability, global warming and other environmental
challenges, and business, in order to ultimately improve quality of lives in developing
Africa
- To execute a project of this kind by the year 2010
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the project so far …
- Technology choice and design is being handled by a section of the team and the other
section is working on the business module.
- The team is also working a lot on collaborations within and outside Nigeria. Team
members are based in the US, Nigeria and South Africa. Our collaborations are therefore
in the 3 countries.
- The team is seeking to start preliminary discussions with state governments in Southwest
Nigeria
- The team is also trying to collaborate with international organizations in the area
of technical assistance and funding information
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finally …
Our focus is to touch lives and help the African governments with
their quest to better people’s lives by contributing our own quota to development,
through our vast technology and management training and experience.
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contact us …
You can send emails to any of our addresses as highlighted above.
Our group email address is IPGSN@e-peaksystems.com.
We believe we have a lot to learn from people. We therefore welcome your kind suggestions.
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