PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan again, on Monday 22nd April, this year, reassured the nation of his administration’s commitment to achieving uninterrupted power supply. This was at the Presidential Power Reform Transaction Signing Ceremony in Abuja. Coming at a time when Nigerians were just recovering from a worsened power supply situation caused by a recent drop in power generation, which officials put at 1,070mw, due to a short fall in gas supply to some thermal plants, the presidential assurance was timely and was meant to rekindle hope in the populace.
Explaining the latest government initiatives in the power sector, also at that event, the Minister of power, Professor Chinedu Nebo disclosed that the Federal Government planned to achieve power generation of 10,000mw in 2014 and 20,000mw by 2016. He put the current power generation level at 4, 800mw while current installed generation capacity had risen to 6,000mw.
According to Prof. Nebo, government’s projection of 10,000mw by next year was hinged on the expected completion of several on-going power projects, including the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) from which 2,200mw was expected, 1,896mw from the Independent Power Producers (IPP), 292mw and 574mw from the Federal Government legal assets and a total of 4,234mw expected from the large, medium and small hydro-plants.
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