Students of Federal Polytechnic, Bida have developed a “mega solar energy panel” to boost electricity supply to the institution.
The project, which was undertaken by students of the department of Electrical Engineering and their lecturers, was also meant to provide skilled manpower to the country.
Rector of the polytechnic, Dr Abubakar Dzukogi, said on Tuesday after inaugurating the project in Bida that enhanced power supply would raise the academic performance of students.
Dzukogi said in an interview with NAN that the management would encourage other departments to also contribute more meaningfully to Nigeria’s quest for technological development.
He said that the project was initiated by the students and staff of Electrical Engineering department of the polytechnic to address the problem of power failure in the department.
The rector said that the management would support those involved to extend the scope of the project to cover the entire polytechnic.
” We have already set up a committee to look into the possibility of harnessing the solar energy potentials of the institution with a view to utilising such potentials to power the entire polytechnic.
“We hope as soon as the committee on solar energy finished its assignment, the entire polytechnic is likely to benefit, and the problem of power outage would be a thing of the past ” Dzukogi said. (NAN)