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Felix Ofulue, Head, Corporate Communications and Brands Department, said this in a statement in Lagos on Thursday.
The project is in keeping with Egbin Power’s commitment to enhancing infrastructure development, socio-economic growth, and effective policing to promote safety and security in the company’s host communities.
This was disclosed by Seyi Sobogun, Head, Capital Projects, Egbin Power Plc, a Sahara Power Group Company, while delivering a paper titled “Energy Mix – The Challenges with Funding and Deploying Commercially Viable Renewable Energy Solutions,” at the recently concluded West Africa Power Pool Conference in Dakar, Senegal.
Egbin, a subsidiary of the Sahara Power Group, has so far inducted over 200 graduate trainee engineers as it continues to “proactively, responsibly and sustainably shape Nigeria’s power narrative for socio-economic advancement and industrialization,” said Kola Adesina, Group Managing Director, Sahara Power Group.
The company made this known in a statement on Saturday after a Wednesday night fire took out the 1,320MW plant.
The power generating plant is one of the operating entities of Sahara Power Group, which is an affiliate of Sahara Group.
The Chief Operating Officer, Gas and Power, NNPC, Yusuf Usman, and Chairman, Board of Directors, Egbin Power Plc, Temitope Shonubi, announced both organisation’s commitment to transforming the power sector during a facility visit by the NNPC team to the power plant on Monday in Lagos.
Temitope Shonubi, Chairman, Board of Directors, Egbin Power Plc, gave the assurance on Tuesday while inaugurating electric buggies and bicycles at the electricity generation company’s complex at Ijede in Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
Conceived in 2014 to serve as a rallying platform and celebration of Sahara’s diversity, the event represents the energy giant’s commitment to excellence, team work, integrity and professionalism
Egbin Power Plc is the largest privately owned power generation company in Sub-Saharan Africa and accounts for over 20 per cent of power generated in Nigeria.
Tonye Cole, the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Sahara Group, told the delegates that the privatization of the sector was a critical step Nigeria had to take in its pursuit for a reliable and sustainable power sector
The Managing Director, Egbin Power Plc, Dallas Peavey, said the country was heading towards another blackout next week as liquidity, transmission and gas supply issues threatened its operations
Speaking at a two-day Power Sector Stakeholders Interactive Dialogue convened by the National Assembly in Abuja, Makoju, who was Special Adviser to three Presidents of Nigeria on Power, canvassed for fundamental structural change as against the current path of tariff increases and government bailouts
Speaking on Egbin’s post privatization achievements, Dallas Peavey, the Chief Executive Officer, said prior to the privatization of the plant in November 2013, Egbin averaged generation of below 300MW due to the dismal operational state of its six units and at its lowest point, only two of the six units were partially operational
Peavey made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos against the backdrop of the company’s inability to expand its plant for further electricity generation
This was contained in a statement signed on Tuesday by Alex Okoh, the Head of Public Communications of KERL, and sent to News Agency of Nigeria
Peavey noted that Egbin, whose sustained 1,100mw generation is driving recent increase in the nation’s power supply, faces a huge setback from the current housing constraints due to the illegal occupants