Future Energy Nigeria opens partnership opportunities for Nigerian, Indian energy companies – Singh

Rajeev Singh, the Director-General and CEO of the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has said the future Energy Nigeria holding in Lagos on November 12 and 13, is providing a platform for Indian and Nigerian companies to collaborate and develop energy projects in the country.

“Nigeria as a country holds tremendous promise for Indian Companies in terms of exports. Our exporters have forged good alliances and they are exporting to Nigeria in decent quantum through participation in this program for the last two years,” said Singh.

The ICC is the featured country partner at the upcoming Future Energy Nigeria 2019, hosting a pavilion of almost 50 suppliers of specialised technology and services for the sector having seen that there is a tremendous potential for Indian products in the Nigerian market.

Founded in 1925,  the ICC is the only National Chamber of Commerce operating from Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai and is one of the most pro-active and forward-looking Chambers in the country today. Its membership spans some of the most prominent and major industrial groups in India

“We organize over 200 summits and interactive sessions. Our efforts have primarily been at linking the business communities between India and South Asia, South East Asia, Africa and The Middle East,” he said.

Singh said the ICC has been working proactively on key issues impacting the Energy sector through its various initiatives in the form of recommendation to the Ministry, publication of reports, creating various platforms (Summits) between government and industry body addressing important and relevant concerns.

The India Energy Summit is one of the prime initiatives of ICC in the Energy Sector. Singh said the IES which started nine years ago has today succeeded in achieving the recognition of being one of India’s largest energy gatherings

He also said the Green Energy Summit has proved to be another major initiative of the ICC which exclusively focuses upon the Indian RE (Renewable Energy) Sector.

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The Future Energy for three years has enjoyed the support of ICC. “The primary objective of ICC is to connect over 1800 C-level industry professionals across the full spectrum of the sector to address today’s challenges and implement tomorrow’s solutions. The exhibitors are happy to join this exhibition as it is giving them opportunities to promote their products/services in West Africa as well,” Singh said.

Future Energy Nigeria, in its 16th edition is organised by Spintelligent, a multi-award-winning Cape Town-based exhibition and conference producer across the continent in the infrastructure, energy and mining sectors.

Ade Yesufu, Business Development Director, Future Energy Nigeria said this year’s edition will focus on bridging Nigeria’s energy access gap, the role of off-grid generation projects as well as discuss the NERC initiative to franchise the Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) in Nigeria.

“The goal is to increase competitiveness in the market and improve the quality of electricity supply through investment in metering, billing, collection and network rehabilitation and expansion,” Yusufu said.