With heavy heart, we announce the passing of one of Nigeria’s erudite scholars, reservoir of knowledge and International expert in Nigeria’s Energy sector, Prof David Aderibigbe, on Monday, September 16, 2019, at the age of 69, after a brief illiness.
He was a believer and indeed the first to corporately explore the Ocean Renewable Energy System (OES) & Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) as pre-development assessment initiative/activities at technical workshop sessions with Foreign governments, International Agencies/ Professional bodies and the relevant agencies of Federal Govt of Nigeria.
His leading professional activities in this sector within international organisation/Agency/Corporations: International Energy Agency-IEA, Ocean Energy System-OES, Lockheed Martin & AMBRI of USA, African Development Bank-AfDB and the Nigerian Institute of Oceanography & Marine Research-NIOMR including the Renewable Energy Division (RED) of NNPC, the Energy Commission of Nigeria, Nigeria Energy Regulatory Commission-NERC, NIMASA, Nigerian Navy-NN, Rural Energy Agency-REA and the Renewable Energy Dept of Fed Ministry of Power amongst others, have indeed qualified and placed Nigeria as the best location in the world for the generation of Ocean Energy Resource, Utility Scale Solar PV, Concentrated Solar Power-CSP and Small Scale Wind Turbine into renewable energy and other foreign exchange multi products earners beyond Oil & Gas for Nigeria respectively.
He was on the verge of successful breaking and launching of a unique Multi-Mega Watt Battery Storage capacity energy product, for heavy electricity consumer- users for his dear country-Nigeria, that he loved so much, which he has been working on, with other professionals in the United States of America in the last five years.
The entire professional family of Fot-K Consortium (home & abroad) where he was one of the Project Development Directors, mourn him with regret.
Burial arrangement to be announced by the family.
Signed
Akogun Kola Onadipe
Managing Partner/CEO
Fot-K International Consortium.
