Barth Nnaji: Lagos and other cities can emulate the success of the Abia power project.
The recently inaugurated 181 megawatt power plant in Aba, Abia State, may be replicated in Lagos and other areas of the nation, according to a former minister of power, Prof. Barth Nnaji.
Barth Nnaji: Lagos and other cities can emulate the success of the Abia power project.
In an interview with Sunrise Daily, Nnaji, the CEO of Geometric Power Limited, the company that owns the Aba power plant, stated that spreading the project throughout the nation will be a smart method to reduce dependency on the national grid.
“It’s a blotter, an ink approach,” he declared. Thus, ink spreads when it gets on a portion of a blotter. Additionally, if you drop it repeatedly, the blotter will soon become completely covered in ink. You can carry out the same task in Lagos if I were to look at the project we have here.
It is possible to carry out this activity in a number of locations with industrial and economic activity, including Eko, Ikeja, Kano, and Kaduna.
It can benefit the nation if you start considering the likelihood that they will all grow in the future. Instead of having a generation where there is no clear correlation between distribution and generation, you need to have a tight generation and distribution.
This may potentially be repeated across the nation. Additionally, it will be a great way to avoid depending on the national grid power arrangement.
About nine of the 17 local government units in the South-East state now receive electricity from the plant thanks to the efforts of a new electricity distribution firm called Aba Power Limited Electric.
Nnaji claims that the 188 megawatt capacity of the power plant is more than enough power for the nine LGAs. According to him, the capacity is over two thirds of what Enugu Electricity can currently supply to the five states in the South-East.
“After installation is complete, our capacity will be 188 megawatts, which is nearly two-thirds of what Enugu Disco is able to supply to five states in the East.” Having sufficient power alone is not enough to guarantee dependability.
“You need to possess more than what the location requires. There has to be more. As a result, people may simply opt to stop using power because it is impossible to forecast when peak demand for electricity would occur.
