RES:UNiT: is a multi-disciplinary team of international- development professionals, economists, electrical-engineers/pv-designers/solar power technicians, and financial-analysts focused on providing energy-advisory services to developers; independent power producers, systems-integrators, consumers, and stakeholders in the power and renewable-energy sector in and outside of Nigeria. We offer services in eight core-areas.

Research-Analysis: Working with businesses, government, civil society, academia, and donor communities we provide insight into critical questions shaping electrification and energy access; decarbonization; climate-resiliency; e-mobility; environmental sustainability; and circular economy.

Proposal-Development & Financial Advisory: Focuses on supporting off-grid entrepreneurs in assembling project-portfolios to commercial-banks, funders, local, as well as international investors that are credit-worthy and bankable, through the provision of due-diligence and financial under-writing for bid-application submissions.

Project-Finance: Connects developers to sponsors; donor-funded programs supporting RE solutions and deployment; commercial-banks; local; as well as international investors.

Project-Support & Results-Measurement: Provides baseline-studies; community needs-assessments; monitoring and evaluation (M&E); impact- assessment; knowledge-management systems-design; documentation and learning to RE developers, firms, and enterprises for their electrification services; projects, initiatives, and programs.

Consumer-Education & Awareness: Designs and delivers education workshops about off-grid power-generation, transmission, and distribution that educates urban and rural electricity end-users about the benefits and usage of decentralized solar power renewables.

Research & Development (R&D):

Identifies new breakthroughs (such as batter storage innovations); supports national efforts to establish a local manufacturing hub; and expands in-house capabilities to design diode-solar-panels, cables, wires, charge-controllers, MSME productive use energy-efficient appliances, equipments, electric-cooking, clean-cook stoves, and other RE products and components to reduce reliance on importation.

Through mutual partnership between the West and Nigeria, will collaborate with electrician trade-schools; renewable energy institutes; clean energy centers/hubs at tertiary institutions; and corporations to action skills-upgrade in local manufacturing priority-areas and facilitate technology-transfer through demonstration teams, projects, and or pilots.

Advocacy: Promotes sensitization campaigns and consumer-financing in the banking-sector to scale-up (pico-solar products; solar home systems; and captive generation) renewables usage across Nigeria as electricity end-users transition off the grid.

Calls for the design and enforcement of RE-friendly policies such as carbon-taxes and carbon offset-credits to be levied upon businesses and multinationals with large CO2 emissions (across transport, oil & gas, telecoms, agriculture, mining, and building sectors) operating in Nigeria. Funds raised from taxes will be utilized as a partial financing-mechanism to reduce capital-expenditures incurred by mini-grid developers when implementing RE-projects.

Supports and publicizes the need for zero import duty on all RE components; attainment of special industry standing based on the Finance Act of 2020; and corporate tax write-offs across the board for all sizes of RE firms (especially small developers and enterprises).

Implements humanitarian energy initiatives that expand access to pico-solar kits in IDP camps, orphanages, soup-kitchens, and skills acquisition centers across Nigeria to close energy access gaps.

RES:UNiT: Engaging Electricity Renewables Girls & Youth Collective (ENeRGy CoLLeCTiVE)

Is a weekend enrichment innovation lab focused on sparking the interest, passion, and involvement of girls and women in energy. The lab aims to promote the active engagement of select, bright-minded, and forward-thinking senior secondary SS3-6 Math & Physics students in collaboration with tertiary-level electrical engineers to prototype and design off-grid solutions to problems in Nigeria’s electricity sector.

ENeRGy CoLLeCTiVE incubator through seminars will also educate and train students via simulations in the latest RE technologies by partnering with other RE centers, camps, academies, startups, and institutes.

As a student-centered hub, the STEM-program accelerator lab will also engage in quarterly practicums through field-trip demonstration workshops. This will include site-observations of RE firms, enterprises, and or developers at their assembly-plants, shops, design studios, client, or construction project-sites to deepen student understanding of work carried out during weekend innovation labs.