President Bola Tinubu on Friday performed the ground-breaking of the 350MW first phase of NNPC Ltd 1350MW Gwagwalada Independent Power Project (GIPP)
The Gwagwalada Independent Power Plant when completed is expected to generate an average of 10.3 million MWh of electricity per year with an expected revenue of $800 million annually.
The project which is situated on 54.7 hectares of land in Gwagwalada, FCT, is one of the critical power generation projects along the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline corridor which is at 70% completion, consists of three power train blocks of 450MW each.
Each block will include two General Electric, GT13E2 gas turbine generators, two heat recovery steam generators, one steam turbine electric generator, one direct air-cooling condenser, balance of plant equipment and a black start diesel generator.
The project is inline with President Tinubu’s campaign promise to increase power generation beyond the current 12,000MW, address power value chain challenges, and remove all distribution bottlenecks.
The GIPP project is led by NNPC Ltd. in a joint venture with China Machinery and Engineering Corporation (CMEC) for the EPC, and General Electric (GE) for the Long Term Service Agreement, designed to provide reliable electricity, strengthen Nigeria’s energy sector, and accelerate economic growth.
AKK is Nigeria’s largest, ongoing domestic gas pipeline project till date.President Bola Tinubu acknowledged that, the absence of adequate Energy supply had discouraged many Investors and made the nation a consuming rather than a productive one.
The Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC-Limited, Mallam Mele Kyari at the opening of the Groundbreaking for the Independent Power Plant Project, gave an assurance that, the Company would fastrack the project to engender development and create job opportunities for people in the area and beyond.
Mallam Kyari also reiterated the Company’s unflinching commitment towards supporting the Federal Government’s Gas-to-Power aspirations through effective utilization of Nigeria’s abundant Gas Resources.
The Groundbreaking ceremony of the Independent Power Plant Project in Gwagwalada was attended by the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Ambassador Gabriel Aduda, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Benjamin Kalu, the Governor of Borno state, Babagana Zulum, Captains of Industry and other top Government functionaries.
