President Bola Tinubu breaking ground for the Gwagwalada IPP project
Eko Hot Blog reports that President Bola Tinubu on Friday performed the groundbreaking ceremony for the 1350 Megawatts (MWh) Gwagwalada Independent Power Plant (IPP) belonging to NNPC Limited in Abuja.
Speaking at the ceremony, the president assured that the federal government will remove all distribution bottlenecks.
Tinubu noted that the plant will improve power supply to homes and businesses, adding that through the project, jobs will be created for young professionals and local communities.
“Government will ensure that all distribution bottlenecks are removed. We cannot become a productive and industrialised economy unless you can generate, transmit and distribute electricity,” he said.
“To accelerate our economic growth, we must remove every obstacle on our to energy sufficiency. That this project is taking off so early in the life our administration should serve as a notice to the residents of Abuja and indeed all Nigerians of our determination to bring positive change to this nation.”
President Bola Tinubu speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Gwagwalada IPP project
He charged the NNPCL to ensure that the project is completed in the scheduled three-year period.
President Bola Tinubu and Group CEO of NNPCL, Mele Kyari exchange pleasantries at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Gwagwalada IPP project
On his part, the Group CEO of NNPCL, Malam Mele Kyari, said the plant is among several plants planned to utilise the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) pipeline.
“Currently NNPC and partners are delivering about 800MW to the national grid from Afam VI and Okpai Phase 1 thermal power plants with combined installed capacity of 1,100MW,” Kyari stated.
“We have also completed Okpai Phase 2 project that will add up to 320MW of power to the national grid and progressing with other power plant projects across the country including those along the AKK pipeline route.
“The Gwagwalada IPP is among the NNPC flagship power projects along the AKK corridor. This is part of the 3,600MW cumulative power capacity which includes Kaduna IPP (900MW) and Kano IPP (1,350MW).”
He noted that “just we have recently commissioned the 50MW Maiduguri Emergency Power plant (MEPP), NNPC will continue to replicate similar viable business opportunities across the nation to ensure energy affordability.”
The Gwagwalada IPP, when completed, is expected to generate an average of 10.3 million MWh of electricity per year with an expected revenue of $800 million annually.
The plant, which is situated on 54.7 hectares of land in Gwagwalada, FCT, consists of three power train blocks of 450MW each. Each block will include two General Electric, GT13E2 gas turbine generators, two heat recovery steam generators, one steam turbine electric generator, one direct air-cooling condenser, balance of plant equipment and a black start diesel generator.
The plant, which will be jointly constructed by the NNPCL China Machinery Engineering Corporation, CMEC, will be powered by gas from the AKK pipeline that is currently under construction.
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