Nigerian 450-MW power plant completed

Construction of the 450-MW Azura-Edo independent power plant has been completed, Minister of Works, Power and Housing Babatunde Fashola announced on Thursday.

The 450-MW open-cycle gas turbine power station is the first phase of a planned 1.5-GW power facility. The site is expected to be large enough to accommodate future expansion of the power plant.

“What matters now is what people are experiencing. Between 2015 and now, many of them will tell you that their experience is better, they will tell that they have power for longer hours compared to before,” the minister said.

In May 2017, the Nigerian government announced that it would seek some USD 5.2 billion in investments and loans from the World Bank in order to upgrade its power generation and transmission infrastructure. NNPC in March 2017 unveiled a power plant construction programme that will double Nigeria’s power generation capacity over the next 10 years, adding 4 GW to the current 3.8 GW capacity.