N’ Delta Firm Bemoans Non-Evacuation Of Generated Power

Acting Executive Director/CEO, Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency (RSSDA), Mr. Godwin Poi (right), receiving the Nelson Mandela Pan African Exemplary Leadership Award, recently.

The Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited (NDPHC) said yesterday that it was losing several millions of naira on power it generated but could not be evacuated by distribution companies.
The General Manager, Communication and Public Relations of NDPHC, Mr. Yakubu Lawal said this in Abuja in an interview with newsmen.
“NDPHC has capacity to generate more power but cannot generate according to its capacity because distribution companies do not have facilities to evacuate this power being generated to the National Grid.
“This un-evacuated power causes NDPHC a lot of money.”
Lawal said NDPHC paid for gas supply to run the plants, and paid both the staff stationed at the sites and the insurance companies.
He said this caused a lot of money running into millions of naira.
He said there had been improvement in power supply because act of pipeline vandalism had been minimised and good infrastructure put in place by the government.
Lawal listed the infrastructure to include generation, transmission and distribution.
The General Manager added that 275 distribution sub stations had been built across the country but were waiting for commissioning by the government.
He explained that when commissioned, the stations would be handed to the distribution companies to use and manage them.
Lawal said NDPHC built transmission lines which also would be handed over to the TCN to manage.
He said that NDPHC had also built seven generation plants out of which five were commissioned by the previous administration.
He, however, said that NDPHC was managing them for now but would hand them over to distribution companies when privatisation issue had been concluded.
He explained that government was going around the country to ascertain the state of the plants, adding that the remaining three would be commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari soon.
Lawal listed Calabar, Ihovbor, Ogorode, Geregu, Alaoji, Omotosho, Olorunsogo as the power plants that had been completed while Gbarain, Omoku and Egbema were almost being completed.