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On Monday, 26 February 2024, a power plant was commissioned in Aba which will provide 24 hours electricity in 9 out of 17 local government areas in Abia State.

The power plant, CONVERSEER learned was build by Geometric Power Plant in Osisioma Industrial Layout, Aba, the commercial hub of the state.

With the epileptic power supply Nigeria faces, the area will become the first in history to have 24/7 power supply.

The capacity of the Geometric Power Plant is 181 megawatts (181MW).

The power plant was built by former Minister for Power, Professor Barth Nnaji for $800 million.

According to the management, Aba will consume only 100 megawatts of power while the balance of 81 megawatts will be exported to the national grid.

Geometric Power is the largest single investment in the South East.

The power plant project was built 9 years ago, marking the beginning of the economic transformation of South East.

The delay was sequel to the initial face-off between Geometric Power Plant and Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, which was recently resolved out of court.

The Turbine 3 power plant was turned on at 3.39pm on Sunday, 25 February 2024, by Geometric Power engineers and their KS Energy counterparts.

The integrated power project includes building of 27-kilometre natural gas pipeline from Owaza in Ukwa West Local Government Area to the Osisioma Industrial Layout in Aba.

According to Ben Caven, Managing Director of Geometric Power Ltd., "We have, in addition, installed 150,000 kilometres of cables and wires and installed four new power substations, as well as refurbished three others inherited from the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN)."

Barth Nnaji embarked on the integrated project after James Wolfensohn, a former World Bank President and then Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala visted Aba, on 17 March 2004, and discovered that the greatest challenge facing both large-scale and medium-scale industrialists in Aba, reputed to be the centre of indigenous manufacturing in Nigeria, was epileptic power supply.

Both Wolfensohn and Okonjo-Iweala appealed to Nnaji to assist with a power plant dedicated to Aba, following the 22MW Abuja Emergency Power Plant he led a team of Nigerian engineers to build in Abuja, from 2000 to 2001 that supplied uninterrupted power to critical places, like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Company, the Central Bank headquarters, the Aso Rock and the entire Central Business District of Abuja.

Patrick Umeh, a former executive with the Los Angeles Water and Light in the United States, who later served as commissioner in-charge of Markets, Market Rates and Competition, at the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), described the tubular poles mounted by Geometric Power in Aba and the environs, as incomparable in Africa.

Source: https://converseer.com/4899/a-look-into-aba-24-7-electric-power-plant/

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