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Power Supply to Reach 9000 Megawatts in Next Few Months – Presidency

By on August 13, 2012

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.”