Cross River State: Power Generation Company to increase Electricity supply

The Niger Delta Power Holding Company says it is working to improve power supply to Nigerians through the Eligible Customer Framework.

The Executive Director, Kassim Abdullahi made this known while inspecting the company’s Power Plant in Odukpani, Calabar, Cross River State.

The plant under the Niger Delta Power Holding Company, NIPP program has five units (Gas Turbines) with a total designed capacity of about 600 Mega Watts.

Shortly after the inspection, Mr Abdullahi described the plant as one of the best plants with uninterruptible gas availability and a good dispatch network.

He said the company already has a power purchase agreement to supply 70MW of power to West African nation- Togo from the power plant and are in discussion to supply another 100MW to Paradise City in Calabar.

“Calabar is one of our best power stations and is one of the power stations with the good gas supply, where we have a GSA with ACCU Gas. The Power Station also has a good dispatch network and some eligible customers as well

“We are here on our on-going inspection as part of the routine maintenance we do on all our Power stations. Calabar is currently running two units. In the morning it was three units that were available and on the grid but because of the instability and some frequency controls we had to go down with one unit

 “The other two units are undergoing routine maintenance on the transformer lube oil system and also a Boroscope inspection on the engines,“  he explained.

The Executive Director mentioned that when all the units are firing, the Calabar power plant has a total capacity of 560MW available power for dispatch.

He disclosed that the Eligible Customer framework “Is one of the key relieves for the power sector that Nigeria has.

“Calabar is one of the Plants where we have a bilateral agreement with Togo, with a PPA to supply about 70MW and also there are on-going discussions with other potential customers in Calabar like the Paradise City, where they are willing to off-take 100MW.”

The Chief Operating Officer of Calabar Power Plant, Oyewale Olugbenga John, noted that the plant has remained the best through the support of the Company’s management and maintenance team at the plant.

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