World Energy Summit Abu Dhabi

cross-section of CCN delegates who attended the summit in Abu Dhabi

We want to confratulate all the CCN ambassadors who attended the World Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, they have worked hard through out 2014 and have been duly rewarded.

It is nice to travel all over the world, in high end hotels for free.. CCN pays the cost.

Don't you want to be a part of them?

Take  advantage of all the CCN opportunities to travel .

Seven (7) Team-Building-Must-Dos in Preparation for the Next Business Season. Part 2

1.     Celebrate Your Team: Team-spirit can be very spontaneous when the team celebrates every success and every lesson from the failures. Identify the core-qualities of your team-members and openly celebrate these qualities. Don’t fail to mention necessary areas where each member needs improvement in the process. Above all, emphasize the desired destination of the team as the central goal, discuss the vision and analyze the mission.

2.     Demonstrate Leadership: Identify the type of leader you will like to follow and decide to be that leader yourself. What type of leader will you like to follow? The leader that is leading you towards maximizing your potential or otherwise? The leader that understands your state and what you need to do to get better? Be determined to lead people to become leaders not perpetually remaining followers.

3.     Deliver your seasoned parting speech: Summarize the entire experience you have had, turn-it around to explore the lessons and present it as resolutions on the way forward. Declare the speech as a mandate to get set for exploits in the coming season.

4.     Appreciate Your Creator: Appreciation invites additional provision. The best provisions are those enjoyed as a result of sustained relationship after the initial provision. The Creator has provided everyone with life and has given the opportunity to thrive to everyone freely. The best appreciation for the Creator is to treat the gift of life we received from Him well by living to honor and praise Him. The honor and praise will without doubt invite additional provision and progress from Him in the coming season.

Get set to flourish in the next season; Go-green, Grow-great!

Seven (7) Team-Building-Must-Dos in Preparation for the Next Business Season. Part 1

       

          The year 2014 is a remarkable one with a lot of ups and downs which manifested in form of challenges and solutions, obstacles and breakthroughs, disappointments and success-stories and so on. It is however note-worthy that the outcome of the year is the reflection of the choices that were made in it because the choices that we make day in and out have a way of making us in return.

Looking ahead to the forthcoming business season of 2015, everyone naturally will wish it be better, fairer and smoother than the passing 2014. It is important to identify what will promote the wish and turn it into a will. The greatest success-stories have come from the people who understand that team-work promotes greater achievement has outlined in the circulated affirmation: TEAM-Together Everyone Achieves More. Get positioned to achieve more as you digest and implement the seven (7) team building must-dos before the final closure of the season.

1.     Review, Refine and Refresh your Goals: Reviewing the performance of the goals you expected to achieve in the passing season, measuring the positive or negative deviations and doing a “Root-cause analysis” of the deviations is the first home-work for all. Productivity analysts have confirmed as much as it is important to write goals, it is more important to keep the goals in view. There is a striking difference between goals and vision, and it is this: Your goal is what you purposed to achieve while your vision is how you see what you purposed to achieve. As much as it is important to write the goals, it is equally important to keep it in view and develop the attitude of keeping it as a mission. Mission is the mindful advancement for what you purposed to achieve. Refine it where necessary and keep it fresh in your mind.

2.     Renew Your Commitment to Personal Development: Decision for personal development is fundamental for any worthwhile accomplishment. The greatest of all capital is not financial capital, it is not also theoretical capital but it is human capital and this confirms the saying that “your greatest investment is the one you made to human development” as true. It is good to decide to develop but commitment to the decision is vital. Decide and take massive actions in the direction of what books to read, what trainings to attend, what functions to fulfill and so on, then keep the commitment to the decision new.

3.     Classify Your Cycle of Influence: The famous and influential author and speaker John C. Maxwell in his book “Talent is not enough” emphasized the importance of identifying the contributions that are made to the quality of our lives as we relate with different types of people. He further pin-pointed the five (5) classes for different persons in all relationships as follows;

(i)              Refiners: Refiners are people who seek to bring out the best in you but not in a very palatable manner. They are mostly disciplinarians who care more about a better you and are not dissuaded by the pains and rigors of been better.

(ii)            Refreshers: Refreshers are those whose company always keep you fresh, they combine sense of humor with strategic conduct that improves you. Refreshers tolerate the expressions of your views than refiners does.

(iii)          Reflectors: These are people who neither add value to the quality of your life nor reduce it. They simply reflect who you are back to you, they help you see your real self and that is where they stop.

(iv)          Reducers: Reducers are those whose every interaction reduces you in one way or the other either by making you lose essential values or by running you down.

(v)            Rejecters: Rejecters are people who for no just cause dislike you. They do not care who you are or who you want to be. They return smiles with frowns, pleasantries with ranting and turn your morale downwards.

It is important to know what category the people in your life falls and reposition yourself to get the best.

By Gideon Fakolade

CCN Sells Bio- fuel Below Kerosene Price,

Africa’’ This was the message of Femi Oye, CEO, GEB during the Green Champions Dinner for 2014 held in Lagos. Green Energy & Biofuels (GEB), a Clean Energy Company in Africa formerly known as SMEFUNDS announced today a 50% cut in cooking fuel price to the residential customers in Nigeria, Ghana, Benin Republic, Cameroon and elsewhere it distributes its Safe and affordable cooking fuel in Africa.

SMEFUNDS concluded its consolidation into a first to reckon Africa’s Waste to Energy cellulosic Biofuel Company now operated as GEB. Its Patented Biofuel Gel has sold some 4million litres in the last 12months while supporting over 200,000 Special purpose Kike Green Cook Stoves. Less than 1-Litre bottle of Biofuel Gel will Support a family of five (5) for a day’s cooking; a 3Litre Bottled Biofuel Gel displaces active 5Litres of Kerosene while burning with no soot, heat or smoke, showing its health, environmental and economic benefit. This great savings will go to supporting their Children’s education and food.

 Carbon credit network is glad to announce the drop in price of our bio fuel gels while the price of kerosene while being heavily subsided is going up.

5LITR 1000  700

3LTR 600 400

0.75LTR 150 100

 As an organisation our aim is to replace all the kerosene stoves in this country, clean up our environment and reduce indoor house air pollution thereby reducing all the health problems in association with it.

Let us tell everyone we know and touch lives and communities of people at  the bottom of the pyramid.

Keep going Green!!!!

CCN RETREAT 2014

Cross Section of Attendees of the CCN Retreat 2014

       The CCN Retreat was a great experience, green ambassadors, officers and above including prospective members attended. It was particularly educational, with speakers challenging our minds and way of currently doing business. 

Coach showing us how we can earn much more in CCN

     CCN CEO Femi Oye also announced the companies innovative ideas which will be unveiled in 2014. CCN will launch an online shopping website with the option of home delivery at a minimal cost. This will greatly reduce the distribution hiccups some users and ambassador experience.

    The occasion was graced by wonder and inspiring motivational speakers;  Mr Wale the MLM expert and another motivational speaker Mr Timi Ologunoye and Mr Ogbo

Mr Ogbo teaching us about financial freedom

Mr Ogbo challenged partcipants to have dreams and dream big, but be willing to work hard and hold on even in the face of adversity.

Mr Timi Ologunoye teaching attendees how to be better entrepreneurs

Mr Wale , the MLM expert teaching attendees how to leverage

Mr Wale said  Everyhting in an MLM business is constant, products, bonuses, benefits, the only variable in an MLM is you.

     We carried our several activities to engage participants, including sending feedback to the  company on ways training, logistics,bonuses, green centers; All of which the company will review and address in due time.

We want to thank all those that participated in the CCN Retreat and for those who did not attend, see you in 2015.

NERC Decries Absence of Renewable Energy Policy in Nigeria

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The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has decried the absence of a policy on renewable energy in the country, saying the development is retarding the contribution of solar energy to the power supply.

Speaking at the Nigeria Photovoltaic Energy Conference, Solarcon 2014, held in Lagos at the weekend, NERC’s Deputy General Manager in charge of Research and Development, Mr. Imamudeen Talba said Nigeria had all the potentials for solar power but lacked policies and legislations to drive this renewable energy option.

“The problem we have in solar in Nigeria, particularly renewable is absence of policies, regulatory challenges and other challenges. Why is it that we do not have adequate solar projects in Nigeria, despite all the potentials that we have? When we go to international for a, we find ourselves embarrassed because most of the West African countries have structured processes for renewable. Some countries have gone to the extent of making legislations for renewable; some countries have policies for renewable energy but Nigeria does not have,” he explained.

He said grid-connected solar power faced a lot of challenges in the country, adding that grid supplies are usually the cheapest option in areas with high load densities, as well as in areas near the grid.

However, Talba said a number of challenges militates against grid-connected solar energy.
He listed the challenges to include high costs of installation and wiring; large land area required and the fact that solar power is not dispatchable, that is, cannot respond to automatic generation control signals from the control centre.
Talba also stated that connecting small, isolated villages to a grid can be expensive because of the necessary investment in transmission lines, poles, transformers, and other infrastructure.
“Solar PV power come in relatively small size and are best connected to low voltage lines whereas NBET buys power only at transmission voltage,” he said.

According to him, the National Energy Policy provides for increase renewable share of power supply, adding also that the yet-to-be approved draft renewable energy master plan provides for 18 per cent of the electricity installed capacity from renewable energies not including the existing large hydropower by the year 2020.
He argued that the country should effectively harness solar energy resources and integrate them with other energy resources. 
Talba also called for the promotion of the use of efficient solar energy conversion technologies, such as use of photo-voltaic and concentrated solar panels for power generation. 

He also called on the Federal Government to intensify efforts to increase the percentage of solar energy in the present energy mix.
To encourage investment in renewable energy, Talba listed the incentives that are implied in the feed-in tariff to include guaranteed market; priority grid connection and offtake ; simplified licensing /permit process; concessionary tariff rates and facilitated land acquisition/ site access.

Other recommended policy incentives, according to him, include tax holidays; import duty exemptions; investment tax credits.
He said NERC on its part, had initiated regulatory instruments to drive solar energy in the country.

He identified the regulatory instruments provided by the agency to include feed-in tariff methodology; draft standard power purchase agreement (PPA); draft licensing guideline; interconnection guidelines; draft incentive proposal and embedded generation regulation.
According to him, feed-in tariffs refer to a minimum guaranteed price per unit of produced electricity as approved by the regulator, to be paid to the producer, or as a premium in addition to market electricity prices.

“Regulatory measures are usually applied to impose an obligation on electricity utilities to pay the (independent) renewable energy power producer a price as specified by the government. The level of the tariff is commonly set for a number of years to give investors security on income for a substantial part of the project lifetime. Nigeria is currently assessing the various regulatory, policy and incentive options, given that each approach has its pros and cons,” he added.

Culled from This Day Newsapaper

Harvesting Sunshine: Clean, Cheap and Consistent Energy

       Over-dependence on the use of fossil fuel to generate energy have caused a lot of damage to our climate. The impacts of the by-products of fossil/solid fuels on the livelihood of energy users as well as on the climate are alarming. Global warming has not spared any part of the world as changes in climatic conditions have results ranging from ocean surges, flooding, tsunamis, hurricanes as well as distortions in seasons for crop-cultivation. The outcomes are so overwhelming in many parts of the world as a lot of lives and properties are lost as a result.

Fossil Fuel Energy Vs Alternative (Renewable) Energy.

Fossil fuel energy (also known as Brown Energy) is not renewable in nature, it cost more in the long-run and causes damage to the environment as well as to a lot of lives. House-hold air pollution is reported by the WHO to be responsible for a lot of health problems 

  

Alternative energy (also known as Green Energy) is renewable and clean in nature. Renewable energy is cheaper in the long-run because it does not require high refueling and maintenance cost like machines with moving parts which runs on fossil fuels, though with initial capital cost which is affordable.

Harvesting Free Resources.

Renewable energy is basically derived from nature and nature has been distributed so freely by God. The amount of sunshine in Africa, for instance is considerably more than what is obtainable in other continents like Europe and yet solar energy is optimized in Europe. The earlier we wake up to this opportunity, the more the solutions we will bring to the energy problem in our society.

Affirmation

Renewable energy is clean, cheap and consistent energy than fossil/solid fuels.

Action Point

We will better our society and livelihood if we act and help others escape energy starvation by switching to renewable energy.

Join the solution, end energy starvation.

Register free at www.carboncreditnetwork.org

Go-green, grow great!

Ode To The Earth

            It was a bright day, the sun shone straight down from the sky in golden streams of sunlight breaking the glaring white of the clouds. The birds chirped, there was a slight breeze and the trees swayed gently in the wind. All was fertile, fresh and green and somewhere in that lush forest a man wandered. That was the sixth day of creation...

And the sun shines once again, but not as benevolent as before as its harsh rays inflict humans with its heat and leaves turn brown under its glare. The skyline once dotted by trees have been replaced with sky scrapers and somewhere over the horizon a thick column of black smoke rises as gas flared occurring. There is the grating sound of electric saws in the background and the gentle thump as century-old trees hit the ground. Oceans teem with dead fish and the rank smell of industrial waste permeates the air...

     Man-made craters occupy the ground as the exploration for natural resources continue.
Poisonous gases escape from factory chimneys driving animals from their habitat. The earth decays. Mother Nature loses her age-long battle with humanity as the earth settles into a brown existence devoid of any sign of life except that of humans living in glass walls afraid to step out into the world they have singlehandedly destroyed...

A brown earth...

Someone once said, "We cut down trees to make space for Wi-Fi, trees produce oxygen. When all the trees are gone, we can't breathe technology."
We live in a world dominated by achievements in technology, space, production and even our understanding of the universe. Yet ironically, the universe we seek to understand is the one we destroy.

Although we cannot return to the Garden of Eden, we can and we must together rebuild our world. With our strides in knowledge we can recreate the lost beauty of our planet. It’s time for a green revolution. It’s up to me. It’s up to you.

By Shope Afolayan

The CCN Beach Party Getaway is a great opportunity to unwind, relax and re-connect with other members. There will be lots of interesting activities like horse riding, football and tennis holding in Lagos

Date: 13th of December.
Venue: La Campaign Tropicana

 Lets have fun and end the year celebrating! Contact us at 0704 238 3761 for tickets and more information.

Leaders Summit

Leaders are not meant for a selected few... Leadership can be developed and maximised for the growth of your business. The Leaders retreat taking place on December 11th is an exciting opportunity to mingle with other high achievers. This event is open to Officers and above .

Date: 11th Dec 2014
Time: 7.30 am - 4.30pm
Venue: Underground Location Lagos

Book your place by clicking on this link http://bit.ly/1qDsASX

 Admission is FREE!!! 

NOVEMBER G.B.O.M

The General Business Opportunity Meeting GBOM held yesterday at NERDC Guest house Agidingbi, ikeja, if you werent there, you definitely missed a whole lot. 

We discussed how to maximize your investment and greatly increase your earning potential. 
We discussed at length the compensation plan
How to improve your training capacity
How to build a more productive network. 
We also shared vital information on the federal government cookstove program .
How to further improve our green business 

Dreams don't work unless you do . Keep going Green!