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Nigeria - Sinotec, a Chinese construction company has completed a major power project in Nigeria which is expected to contribute immensely to the country’s national grid, Punch reports.
The project includes the construction of a 330 kilo volts (kv) new-built transformer substation, 132kv substation extension, 330kv transmission line and 132kv tubular poles.
Designed to be one of the biggest substations in the West African country, the project, located in Gwagwalada city of Abuja, was completed within 14 months after the site work commenced, Sinotec’s deputy managing director, Bu Songbo, said at the commissioning ceremony.
According to him, "this is the only one (project in Nigeria) which covered so many types of work scope."
Chinedu Nebo, Nigeria’s minister of power, described the project, executed under the National Integrated Power Project scheme, as “a very critical link in the national grid” of Africa’s most populous country.
He said the Niger Delta Power Holding Company of Nigeria, which constructed the facility through Sinotec, will be in its second phase of the project, focus mainly on the construction of hydro power plants in northern Nigeria to assure a mixed grid distribution of power.
#Nigeria #Nebo #Power #FCT #Abuja
The project includes the construction of a 330 kilo volts (kv) new-built transformer substation, 132kv substation extension, 330kv transmission line and 132kv tubular poles.
Designed to be one of the biggest substations in the West African country, the project, located in Gwagwalada city of Abuja, was completed within 14 months after the site work commenced, Sinotec’s deputy managing director, Bu Songbo, said at the commissioning ceremony.
According to him, "this is the only one (project in Nigeria) which covered so many types of work scope."
Chinedu Nebo, Nigeria’s minister of power, described the project, executed under the National Integrated Power Project scheme, as “a very critical link in the national grid” of Africa’s most populous country.
He said the Niger Delta Power Holding Company of Nigeria, which constructed the facility through Sinotec, will be in its second phase of the project, focus mainly on the construction of hydro power plants in northern Nigeria to assure a mixed grid distribution of power.
#Nigeria #Nebo #Power #FCT #Abuja
