To address the country’s epileptic power supply situation, the Federal Government has announced plans to generate additional 4,000 megawatts of electricity from coal.
This, according to the government, will augment the country’s power generation, which currently is a little above 4,000MW.
The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, disclosed this in Abuja while inaugurating an eight-man committee on the development of a framework for coal to power.
He said, “The Federal Ministry of Power and the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel are working together to ensure that not only is coal mined from our coal deposit, but that coal is also converted to power. When that is done, it is most likely that these coal belts, when utilised, can give us in excess of 4,000 additional megawatts of electricity.
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