The federal government of Nigeria has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Motir DuSable Power Investment Limited; a US-based renewable energy power firm to build a 300 MegaWatts solar plant in Enugu State.

According to their website,

DuSable Capital is a US-based firm with a focus on making investments in renewable energy and infrastructure projects. DuSable is a developer of utility-scale solar plants in Asia and Africa and has been awarded over 1,500 Megawatts of power in both continents since inception.

The company commenced plans after getting an energy generation license from the Nigerian Energy Regulatory Commission (NERC) for up to 300 MW. They have also completed all of the required technical research for the potential site and is in the final stages of negotiating a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement(PPA) with the Nigerian Government.

The first phase of the project, estimated at about $200million will inject 100mega watts of power into the national power grid, which will subsequently be increased to 200MW in the second phase.

It is sited in Enugu State with the goal of making the state the hub for renewable energy generation in sub-Sahara Africa.

While providing much-needed power, the project will create, jobs, opportunities and open up the state.

According to a press release on the DuSable website, When completed in the next 12 to 18 months, the project will be part of solar energy projects worth $2.5 billion that will be undertaken in Nigeria and is expected to add 975 megawatts of electricity to the national grid.

mrvitalis:
And Buhari hates the east

franchizy:
This project cant be possible because the national Grid of Nigeria cannot carry 300MW at one location.

The highest the Grid can carry is 200MW. I am very much aware of this project and the power purchase agreement signed was for 100MW.

OP, please get ur facts right before posting the news.

Again this project may also be hindered due to insufficient sunlight but should the elevation of be high above sea level, then something might come out of it.

CliffordOrji:
We Igbos in the SE will blow up this Solar plant the same way our Niger Delta brothers are blowing up the Oil pipelines in the SS

franchizy:
This project cant be possible because the national Grid of Nigeria cannot carry 300MW at one location.

The highest the Grid can carry is 200MW. I am very much aware of this project and the power purchase agreement signed was for 100MW.

OP, please get ur facts right before posting the news.

Again this project may also be hindered due to insufficient sunlight but should the elevation of be high above sea level, then something might come out of it.

franchizy:
This project cant be possible because the national Grid of Nigeria cannot carry 300MW at one location.

The highest the Grid can carry is 200MW. I am very much aware of this project and the power purchase agreement signed was for 100MW.

OP, please get ur facts right before posting the news.

Again this project may also be hindered due to insufficient sunlight but should the elevation of be high above sea level, then something might come out of it.

nigeriapolitics:

Smile.... Pls blow it up ASAP, d environmental pollution caused by dose ur so called broda in SS. it wil tak mor dan a deca to clear it up. Dere ar beta ways to xpress urself if u feel u ar bn marginalis. Dan destroying. Ur own enviroment. Ask d Northerners dey al supported BH, but 2de dey can feel d HEAT

aresssa:




And the GEJ they love didn't do jack for them...


This is when hate miss target...

progress69:
The guy u quoted was actually making fun of the ipod yoots

mekuzi09:

Arresa, you still dey here? you no dey tire of Igbo mattere?

MXrep:
so mr arressa, Emmanuel Irono and his US based firm is building it not Buhari's FG. We are enjoying the benefit of GEJ's power reforms, lazy ones want FG to hold on to everything but nobody can win the forces of capitalism

CliffordOrji:
We Igbos in the SE will blow up this Solar plant the same way our Niger Delta brothers are blowing up the Oil pipelines in the SS