About Us – SEPAN

About SEPAN

Nigeria’s national umbrella association for sustainable and renewable energy uniting practitioners, policymakers, and industry under one platform for policy advocacy and clean energy growth.

About SEPAN

Sustainable Energy Practitioners Association of Nigeria (SEPAN) is an umbrella organization of all Sustainable and Renewable Energy of Nigeria. This apex organization works in the area of policy advocacy and is a National Platform for addressing all issues connected with Sustainable and Renewable Energy growth in Nigeria. It consists of leading international, National and regional companies and includes, Manufacturers, EPC Contractors, Rooftop Installers, System integrators, and Balance of Plant suppliers and manufacturers, Small and Medium Enterprises and works in a complimentary manner with the Federal and State Governments.

Vision

SEPAN’s vision is to promote sustainable energy development in Nigeria and ultimately be a major player in the global renewable industry.

Mission

Our Mission is to provide leadership in the renewable energy sector by promoting evidence based progression.

Organization Structure

SEPAN will be governed by the Board of Trustees, headed by a Director General, and other Directorates, with Research and Administrative support staff. National Advisory Board made up of knowledgeable and well experienced people in the sector will also be constituted.

Advocacy

The national voice for renewable energy in Nigeria

We shape policy, build capacity, and connect the sector to accelerate clean energy adoption. Our work puts renewable power at the center of Nigeria’s energy strategy.

Policy research and national advocacy
Training and capacity building
Networking across the clean energy sector

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Methods and Approaches

The Organization will adopt five main methods and approaches for its operations:

Responsive and Proactive Research

Responsive and proactive research in renewable energy and allied research to extend frontiers of knowledge as well as provide evidence for informed policy making. SEPAN will address the sustainable energy questions whose solutions can generate lessons and insights across the country.

Facilitating Links and Dialogue

Facilitating links and dialogue between policy makers and key stakeholders including private sector and civil society. This is to enhance Nigeria’s capabilities for design and implementation of sustainable energy programmes.

Conveying Expert Forums

Conveying expert forums on key sustainable energy questions; it may be monthly, quarterly or annual depending on the issues of the moment. The annual Nigeria Alternative Energy Expo will be adopted and improved upon as SEPAN’s Annual General Conference for the gathering of members, policy makers, manufacturers, investors, consumers, and civil society alike to brainstorm for best practices in clean, affordable and equitable energy sufficiency in the sector.

National and International Networking and Collaboration

SEPAN will seek to enter lasting collaboration and networking with Nigerian, Pan African and International Institutions underpinned to solve common sustainable energy challenges through the supply of research evidence for policies.

Consulting Services for Policy and Institutional Reforms, Training and Capacity Building

Training consultancies (courses, seminars, workshops) to clients based on SEPAN’s core capabilities and competencies. Training/capacity building for registered members will also be organised on a quarterly basis and will focus on conceptual, methodological and analytical questions underlying SEPAN’s research challenges.

Trustees

Larry Edeh

Chris Edeh

Amina Batagarawa

Yusuf Suleiman

Petrus Obinwanne

Segun Adaju

Sunny Akpoyibo

Stories That Power a Sustainable Future

Association Push for Reduction in Cost of Solar, Wind Power Projects in Nigeria

The Sustainable Energy Practitioners Association of Nigeria (SEPAN) has shared with THISDAY the excerpts of a recent research it conducted from which it stated that the cost of producing