Niger Delta
A’Ibom Adopts Strategies To Improve Power Supply
The Akwa Ibom
Government says it has adopted strategies aimed at ensuring regular power supply in the State.
Dr Victor Udoh, the Special Assistant to Gov. Godswill Akpabio on Power, stated this in Uyo on Sunday during interview with newsmen.
According to Udoh, the strategies involved ensuring steady gas supply to the Ibom Power Plant in Ikot Abasi for sufficient electricity generation as well as transmission capacity enhancements.
He said the State Government took a bold step toward power generation by building the power plant, and had realized that steady gas supply to it was needed to ensure steady generation.
He said government had provided enabling environment for the private sector to establish a gas processing plant to ensure steady supply of gas.
The special assistant said that such processing plant would also ensure supply to other independent power plants and gas users within and outside the state.
“The administration has invested significant amount of money into the plant to generate 191 megawatts of electricity with plans for additional 500 megawatts.
“The plant has not been properly operated over the years, so the governor appointed a new board that is repositioning it and the plant is now functioning and producing 115 megawatts.
He, however, noted that transmission was the responsibility the Federal Government under the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
“But this administration has invested in the construction of the Ikot Abasi-Eket 132KV transmission line, designed to evacuate power from the plant”, Udoh added.
Udoh said that the state government also supported the upgrading of the Eket-Uyo-Itu 132kv line, to improve power supply in the state.
He added that the present administration had committed significant resources to providing electricity in over 80 per cent of the communities in the state.
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