Not resting on its
laurels after producing a peak power supply of 4237 Megawatts last week, the
Presidency has announced that the power generation in the country will reach
9,000 Megawatts in the next few months.
A statement from the
Office of
the Senior Special
Assistant to the President on Public Affairs said the administration would
achieve this when it completed 10 projects under the National Integrated Power
Plants (NIPP).
The projects, which
on completion, will add additional 4960mw to the national grid are: Ihovbor in
Edo State (451mw), Omotosho in Ondo State (451mw), Olorunsogo in Ogun State
(750mw), Sapele in Delta State (451mw), Geregu in Kogi State (434mw), Egbema in
Imo State (338mw), Gbarain in Bayelsa (225mw), Omoku in Rivers State (225mw),
Calabar in Cross River State (561mw) and Alaoji in Abia State (1074mw).
The Federal
Government said in the statement signed by the Media Director in the office,
Mr. Olusanya Awosan, “This administration met 10 abandoned NIPP projects and
has successfully revitalised all. More importantly, they are all within the
range of 95-100 per cent completion stage and are awaiting gas supply, which
government has taken very concrete steps to address.
“Government has
improved power generation from under 3,000mw in 2011 to 4,300mw by August 2012.
Therefore, when the 10 NIPP projects are fully on stream, which will be within
the next few months, the total national generation capacity will not be less
than 9000mw, a 200 per cent increase in generating capacity as compared with
the figures for 2011 and the highest ever by any administration since
independence.”
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