IS ENERGY JUSTICE AN AMBITIOUS PARADIGM FOR NIGERIA’S ENERGY SYSTEM?

Abstract

Energy justice is an emerging justice paradigm that ought to weave through every decision-making and research framework for energy systems. This article in drawing an overview of energy justice, its core tenets, and complimentary principles, relates it to the Nigerian energy sector whilst revealing some of the burdens of injustices replete in the energy life cycle which begins from policymaking and legislation, production to consumption. This article whilst advocating for a more efficiently governed energy sector and appropriate remittances of equity and fairness, respect for human rights of consumers and elimination of energy poverty, calls for a more resilient intellectual campaign and research into the concept. This article, therefore, is of the position that energy justice is practicable, invaluable, and achievable and would be a contributory remedial factor for the distasteful state of Nigeria’s energy sector. A multidisciplinary approach was adopted in this work owing to the versatility of energy alongside the doctrinal research methodology.