Alabi Oluwafisayo, Abubakar Aisha, Werkmeister Astrid, Sule Suki Dauda
Centre for Energy Policy, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, McCance Building, 16 Richmond Street, Glasgow, G1 1XQ UK.
Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Royal College Building 204 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1XW UK.
GeoJournal. 2023;88(2):1535-1558. doi: 10.1007/s10708-022-10689-2. Epub 2022 Jul 3.
This paper is focussed on employing satellite night lights (SNLs) to investigate access to electricity across the geographical regions in Nigeria. Specifically, we explore how SNLs interact with human and socioeconomic development indicators (population, poverty, and household consumption) to demonstrate the implications of slow and/or delayed progress in closing the electricity access gap in Nigeria. Our findings suggest that minimal progress has been made and there remains significant evidence of disproportionate spread of electricity across the country with most of the electricity visibility concentrated in the Southern regions, state capitals and industrial centres. Crucially, policy challenges and trade offs emerge. On one hand, is the need to address the long-standing issue of stranded and underutilised assets around power generation, transmission, and distribution and how these balance (or not) against additional and new capacity to enable sufficient, reliable and sustained electricity supply. On the other hand, is the challenge of ensuring that closing the access to electricity gap in Nigeria is done in a way that is just, fair, and equitable, with no part of society becoming worse-off or excluded.
本文聚焦于利用卫星夜间灯光（SNLs）来研究尼日利亚各地理区域的电力供应情况。具体而言，我们探讨卫星夜间灯光如何与人类和社会经济发展指标（人口、贫困和家庭消费）相互作用，以说明尼日利亚在缩小电力供应差距方面进展缓慢和/或滞后所带来的影响。我们的研究结果表明，进展甚微，而且有大量证据表明电力在全国的分布不均衡，大部分电力可见度集中在南部地区、州首府和工业中心。至关重要的是，政策挑战和权衡出现了。一方面，需要解决围绕发电、输电和配电的长期存在的资产搁浅和未充分利用问题，以及这些问题如何（或不）与新增容量相平衡，以实现充足、可靠和持续的电力供应。另一方面，面临的挑战是确保在尼日利亚缩小电力供应差距的过程中，要做到公正、公平和平等，不让任何一部分社会群体的处境变差或被排除在外。
