In furtherance with President Goodluck Jonathan's Transformational Agenda in the Power Sector and his resolve to improve the country's power situation,twelve hydro-electric dams have been
marked for turnaround maintenance activities to improve current power
generation capacity in the country, Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu
Nebo, has said.
He
said: “There are 264 hydro dams which have not been fully utilized. So,
in this first quarter, government did a study and is fixing the
turbines and other components in 12 of them to increase their generation
capacity.” Nebo disclosed that government would soon complete work on the 3050 mw Mambilla hydro dam, adding that it would soon be ready for commissioning by President Goodluck Jonathan.
“There is still a wide gap in power supply. Sadly for us here in Nigeria, we still have about 30 million people that do not have access to power at all.”
“This is the reason the Federal Government is focusing on Renewable Energy (RE), particularly off-grid solar and small hydros, that would not need to depend on the national grid",the Minister said.
Daily Trust reports.
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