AWARENESS LEVEL OF GREEN ENERGY BIOFUELS TOWARDS THE UTILIZATION OF MOST SUSTAINABLE APPROACHES TO ENERGY SUPPLY IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Biofuel is a renewable energy source that is produced from plants and can offer better environmental benefits compared to fossil fuels, hence has the tendency to replace gasoline, diesel fuel and coal, which are fossil fuels. The study adopted a descriptive design of the survey type whose targeted participants were energy producers, industrialists and domestic energy consumers in Nigeria. The research instrument was a questionnaire which was administered online through a Goggle form designed to reach reasonable members of the targeted participants. Their responses were subjected to descriptive and inferential statistics of frequency counts, percentages and t-test at 0.05 level of significance. The result of finding revealed that many people in Nigeria are aware of green energy biofuels, mostly through readings but only a handful of them ever saw it physically. It was also observed that green energy biofuels are not readily available in Nigeria. Hence, very few have used ethanol for cooking at one point or the other. Based on these results, it was recommended, among others, that NNPC should embark on large production of green energy biofuels for reach of Nigerians while upcoming investors are encouraged to venture into the production of green energy biofuels in Nigeria.