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Nigeria's Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola yesterday at his maiden press conference unveiled his short term plans to address housing deficit, provide good roads and increase power generation.
Fashola said that topmost in the government’s priority for the power sector was getting contractors to finish on-going transmission contracts to enable it to transport the power being generated to the Discos to distribute.
Speaking about ongoing projects, Fashola said there is a 10MW wind energy project in Katsina nearing completion, a 215MW plant in Kaduna and the 3,050 MW plant in Manbilla Taraba State all of which need to be completed.
“Subject to budgetary approvals and financing, the Ministry of Petroleum indicates their ability to build certain critical pipelines to transport gas to the power plants that will add another 2,000 mw to our stock of power within 12-15 months," he added.
With Nigeria's current power generation of 5000MW, it's possible the minister is looking at generating 10000MW when the projects are completed and enough gas is supplied to the plants.
He stated that FG will increase the current official electricity tariff for manufacturers to boost their power supply.
He asked the the governors to identify and enumerate their most populous industrial and commercial clusters where manufacturing, fabrication, welding and related productive work is going on, especially by small businesses and to see how the government can use the existing legal framework to attract embedded power supply to these people who must be ready to pay for the power.
He said the government would boost the local meter production, sale, repair and maintenance industry to create jobs.
He also urged everyone, including governors and government officials to pay their electricity bills.
The Nation
Fashola said that topmost in the government’s priority for the power sector was getting contractors to finish on-going transmission contracts to enable it to transport the power being generated to the Discos to distribute.
Speaking about ongoing projects, Fashola said there is a 10MW wind energy project in Katsina nearing completion, a 215MW plant in Kaduna and the 3,050 MW plant in Manbilla Taraba State all of which need to be completed.
“Subject to budgetary approvals and financing, the Ministry of Petroleum indicates their ability to build certain critical pipelines to transport gas to the power plants that will add another 2,000 mw to our stock of power within 12-15 months," he added.
With Nigeria's current power generation of 5000MW, it's possible the minister is looking at generating 10000MW when the projects are completed and enough gas is supplied to the plants.
He stated that FG will increase the current official electricity tariff for manufacturers to boost their power supply.
He asked the the governors to identify and enumerate their most populous industrial and commercial clusters where manufacturing, fabrication, welding and related productive work is going on, especially by small businesses and to see how the government can use the existing legal framework to attract embedded power supply to these people who must be ready to pay for the power.
He said the government would boost the local meter production, sale, repair and maintenance industry to create jobs.
He also urged everyone, including governors and government officials to pay their electricity bills.
The Nation
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