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or general development.
1 Although the concept is still emerging,
2 the
broad understanding is that law is a fundamental catalyst for socioeconomic development.
3 The instrumentality of a strategic regulatory
framework that drives state and non-state actors to engender industrial
development
4 is also applicable to the electricity industry.
5 A fundamental catalyst for the development of off-grid/rural renewable energy
(RE) would be viable, strategic laws for that purpose.
6
No doubt, Nigeria’s electricity regulatory framework consists of several
electricity laws, regulations and policies for the governance of on-grid
and off-grid REs and non-REs. Nigeria is blessed with vast but largely
1 Yong-Shik Lee, ‘General Theory of Law and Development’ (2017) 50 Cornell International Law Journal 415, 416–418; Mamman Lawan, ‘Law and Development in Nigeria: A
Need for Activism’ (2011) 55 (1) Journal of African Law 59, 66; Olisa Agbakoba, ‘Development Law Policy as Magic Wand to Transform Nigerian Economy’ BusinessDay (Lagos,
22 September, 2019), https://businessday.ng/opinion/article/development-law-policy-as-magicwand-to-transform-nigerian-economy/.
2 Yong-Shik Lee (n 1) 416–417; Olisa Agbakoba (n 1).
3 Other fundamental catalysts include institutional frameworks, capacity to implement laws,
socio-cultural orientations, corruption, political stability and security, leading to a considerable
level of economic certainty. See Yong-Shik Lee (n 1) 471. See also: Yemi Oke, ‘Energy
Resources Governance for National Development: Options for Socially Sustainable Electricity
Generation, Transmission and Distribution in Nigeria’ (2015) 3 (1) UNILAG Journal of
Humanities 134, 135 and 141, http://ir.unilag.edu.ng:8080/bitstream/handle/123456789/
3898/Energy%20Resources%20Governance%20for%20National%20Development%20Opti
ons%20for%20Socially%20Sustainable%20Electricity%20Generation%2C%20Transmission%
20and%20Distribution%20in%20Nigeria.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
4 Yong-Shik Lee, Law and Development: Theory and Practice (Routledge, March 2019) xv.
5 Yemi Oke, (n 3) 134.
6 Hugh Corder and Terhemen Andzenge, ‘Regulation as a Catalyst for the Electrification of
Africa’ in Yinka Omorogbe and Ada Ordor (eds), Ending Africa’s Energy Deficit and the Law:
Achieving Sustainable Energy for All in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2018) 71, 76–85; Yinka
Omorogbe, ‘Promoting Sustainable Development Through the Use of Renewable Energy: The
Role of the Law’ in Donald N Zillman and others (eds), Beyond the Carbon Economy: Energy
Law in Transition (Oxford University Press, 2008) 39, 40, https://www.researchgate.net/pub
lication/290836523_Promoting_Sustainable_Development_through_the_Use_of_Renewable_
Energy_The_Role_of_the_Law/link/575f30cb08aed884621baec6/download; Tatjana Tupy, ‘The
Importance of the Legal and Regulatory Framework for the Development of Renewable Energy’
(Paper presented at the 10th Baku International Congress on Energy, Ecology, and Economy,
Baku, 23 September, 2009) 5–8, https://www.osce.org/baku/41263?download=true; Kouame
David Zaucyn, ‘Impacts of Regulations on the Diffusion of Renewable Energy in Africa: The
Case Study of the Republic of Benin’ (Master’s Degree thesis, Pan-African University Institute
of Water and Energy Sciences 2019) 27–28, http://repository.pauwes-cop.net/bitstream/handle/
1/366/Final%20Version%20Thesis%20Kouame%20David%20ZAUCYN.pdf?sequaence=1&isA
llowed=y.
M. U. Ukponu et al.
or general development.
1 Although the concept is still emerging,
2 the
broad understanding is that law is a fundamental catalyst for socioeconomic development.
3 The instrumentality of a strategic regulatory
framework that drives state and non-state actors to engender industrial
development
4 is also applicable to the electricity industry.
5 A fundamental catalyst for the development of off-grid/rural renewable energy
(RE) would be viable, strategic laws for that purpose.
6
No doubt, Nigeria’s electricity regulatory framework consists of several
electricity laws, regulations and policies for the governance of on-grid
and off-grid REs and non-REs. Nigeria is blessed with vast but largely
1 Yong-Shik Lee, ‘General Theory of Law and Development’ (2017) 50 Cornell International Law Journal 415, 416–418; Mamman Lawan, ‘Law and Development in Nigeria: A
Need for Activism’ (2011) 55 (1) Journal of African Law 59, 66; Olisa Agbakoba, ‘Development Law Policy as Magic Wand to Transform Nigerian Economy’ BusinessDay (Lagos,
22 September, 2019), https://businessday.ng/opinion/article/development-law-policy-as-magicwand-to-transform-nigerian-economy/.
2 Yong-Shik Lee (n 1) 416–417; Olisa Agbakoba (n 1).
3 Other fundamental catalysts include institutional frameworks, capacity to implement laws,
socio-cultural orientations, corruption, political stability and security, leading to a considerable
level of economic certainty. See Yong-Shik Lee (n 1) 471. See also: Yemi Oke, ‘Energy
Resources Governance for National Development: Options for Socially Sustainable Electricity
Generation, Transmission and Distribution in Nigeria’ (2015) 3 (1) UNILAG Journal of
Humanities 134, 135 and 141, http://ir.unilag.edu.ng:8080/bitstream/handle/123456789/
3898/Energy%20Resources%20Governance%20for%20National%20Development%20Opti
ons%20for%20Socially%20Sustainable%20Electricity%20Generation%2C%20Transmission%
20and%20Distribution%20in%20Nigeria.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
4 Yong-Shik Lee, Law and Development: Theory and Practice (Routledge, March 2019) xv.
5 Yemi Oke, (n 3) 134.
6 Hugh Corder and Terhemen Andzenge, ‘Regulation as a Catalyst for the Electrification of
Africa’ in Yinka Omorogbe and Ada Ordor (eds), Ending Africa’s Energy Deficit and the Law:
Achieving Sustainable Energy for All in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2018) 71, 76–85; Yinka
Omorogbe, ‘Promoting Sustainable Development Through the Use of Renewable Energy: The
Role of the Law’ in Donald N Zillman and others (eds), Beyond the Carbon Economy: Energy
Law in Transition (Oxford University Press, 2008) 39, 40, https://www.researchgate.net/pub
lication/290836523_Promoting_Sustainable_Development_through_the_Use_of_Renewable_
Energy_The_Role_of_the_Law/link/575f30cb08aed884621baec6/download; Tatjana Tupy, ‘The
Importance of the Legal and Regulatory Framework for the Development of Renewable Energy’
(Paper presented at the 10th Baku International Congress on Energy, Ecology, and Economy,
Baku, 23 September, 2009) 5–8, https://www.osce.org/baku/41263?download=true; Kouame
David Zaucyn, ‘Impacts of Regulations on the Diffusion of Renewable Energy in Africa: The
Case Study of the Republic of Benin’ (Master’s Degree thesis, Pan-African University Institute
of Water and Energy Sciences 2019) 27–28, http://repository.pauwes-cop.net/bitstream/handle/
1/366/Final%20Version%20Thesis%20Kouame%20David%20ZAUCYN.pdf?sequaence=1&isA
llowed=y.