GE Gas Power has said it is looking forward to pushing close to 500 megawatts (MW) of additional power into the national electricity grid by the second quarter of this year, when its ongoing projects would have been completed.
The multinational company, which focuses on providing equipment, solutions and services across the energy value chain, from generation to consumption, said it has three new projects that would deliver close to 500mw.
The firm listed them as the 240MW Afam III power plant in Port Harcourt, 50MW Maiduguri project with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) and another 50MW project for Dangote Group to support its cement and refinery plants, among others.
He, however, observed that Nigeria’s power sector was challenged by multiple factors, saying with the nation’s total installed generation capacity of about 13000mw, only between 3,500 to 5000MW were typically available for onward transmission to the final consumer.
Commenting on the possibility of Nigeria actualising its net-zero target by 2060, he explained that energy sustenance and country’s survival should be uppermost before any transition since, according to him, one must exist before transiting.