In response to the power supply situation in Delta State, over N48.4 billion has been expended on 391 projects to stabilize its supply to the state.
The state requires about 1008 megawatts of electricity to meet its daily needs but about 100MW, representing 10 per cent of its requirement, is available from the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria.
The state is being served from five different 132/33kv transmission sub-stations, two of which are located in Sapele and Ughelli axis of the state and three outside it.
Altogether, there are five power plants in the state that deliver power into the national grid, two in Sapele, two at Delta IV power station, Ekakpamre, and one at Okpai, which is the only one operating at full capacity.
Recently, the National Integrated Power Project commenced the installation of a 330/132/33kv sub-station, with 1X150MVA power transformers to be connected to the existing 330kv Benin-Onitsha transmission line.
The project, when completed, said Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s Commissioner for Energy, Hon. Charles Emetulu, who briefed journalists in Asaba, “will boost power supply to Asaba and its environs.”
Emetulu said from the N48,415,002,663.31 spent on power projects in five years by Governor Uduaghan’s administration, the state has a portfolio of 95 projects valued at N29,707,519,570.92 for the period May, 2011, to date.
“These include ongoing projects that commenced before the period under review, such as the Delta State Independent Power Plant, which phase 1 (acquisition and installation of the power plant) was awarded in June, 2009, at a contract sum of N23,207,826,566.00 that has progressed to an advanced stage.”
According to him, the sum of N5,874,695,939.60 was paid from May 2011 to date for the engineering and procurement of the 2Nos Rolls Royce Trent 64MW, product Nos. 80A58001 and 80A58002 with S/N: A7788 and A7163 Gas Turbines and 2Nos 64 MW Brush Generators with Machine S/N: 921028010 and 921027010, including the civil works, administrative building, fencing and pile foundations for the turbines.
He however said the prohibitive cost of renewable energy technologies and inadequate Technological-Know-How on Renewable Energy, deregulation, huge investment cost of power projects, vandalization of electricity projects and monopoly of generation, transmission and distribution by PHCN continued to pose serious threat to improved energy supply in the state.
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