Sustainable Power, Impact of Generator Driven Economy on the Environment

Nigeria's largely inadequate power generation has dropped by 300mw, from 2200mw to 1900mw. The acute electricity supply hinders the country's development; notwithstanding the availability of vast natural resources in the country while only about 40% of the population of the country has access to electricity. The 60 percent of the population therefore has to depend on generators which use fossil fuel for their power. Fossil fuel combustion for electric power generation is responsible for 65% of all emissions of sulfur dioxide, the main component of acid rain. Electricity generation is the fourth highest combined source of Nox, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter. These emissions including carbon dioxide are the major contributor to climate change, environmental problems in the paper and causes health problems (breathing and cancers). As a result of the environmental problems associated with fossil fuel and generator use there is need for sustainable power consciousness.