Transcorp Power, a subsidiary of the Transcorp Group business conglomerate, has expressed its desire to partner with Covenant University with a view to exploring solar energy generation and utilization in Nigeria.

The Group General Counsel, Transcorp Power, Mr. Christopher Ezeafulukwe, made this disclosure on Friday, February 10, 2017, when he led representatives of his organisation including that of its partner, ENGIE, on a courtesy visit to the Management of Covenant University.

Mr. Ezeafulukwe, who bemoaned what he described as the “critical situation” with power supply in Nigeria, said that changes in government policies have had a drastic effect on Transcorp Power’s investment and, in its efforts at finding a solution to the challenge, the company had partnered with power producer, ENGIE, on solar energy.

“We did preliminary work to identify stakeholders whose power we would need to address. One is the tertiary education sector, then Covenant University came up,” he said.

While acknowledging the giant strides being made by Covenant University in the areas of teaching, research and provision of infrastructure, Mr. Ezeafulukwe said that Transcorp Power was at Covenant University to understand the University’s energy needs, and areas where his company and the University can work together within the purview of what Transcorp Power was doing with ENGIE.

Shedding light on the operation of his organization, the Chief Executive Officer of ENGIE, Mr. Philipe Miguele, said that energy system was going through significant evolution and ENGIE was set to launch a significant investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, with the goal of helping customers in growing their energy generation capacity.

ENGIE, he pointed out, wants to partner with Covenant University on power generation and help to reduce the University’s cost as solar energy generation is cost effective.

In his comments, the Director, Physical Planning and Development, Covenant University, Arc. Gbenga Alalade, who expressed appreciation of what Transcorp Power and ENGIE were doing, narrated the evolution of power generation and utilization in CU since inception up to 2015 when the University migrated fully to its own power project, which currently stands at 5.67 megawatts. Power production, he added, would be increased to 10.8 megawatts by the end of 2017.

Arc. Alade revealed that the ultimate goal of Covenant University is renewable energy with focus on solar, wind and waste. It would be ideal, he enthused, for the University and Transcorp Power to work together.

Dr. Hope Orovwode, who represented the Head, Renewable Energy Cluster, CU, Professor Samuel Wara, at the meeting, said that the renewable energy cluster has been doing a lot on solar and the next step was to make it cost effective. The coming of Transcorp Power, he stressed, was timely, and Covenant University would be willing to learn from the company towards making energy accessible to Nigerians.

In his remarks, the Vice-Chancellor, Covenant University, Professor AAA. Atayero, said he was not surprised that Transcorp Power had chosen to work with Covenant University, attributing the decision to divine providence.

He said that the University had gone through many phases in its desire to find a permanent solution to its power needs and currently uses the turbine but looking at shifting to sustainable energy.

The proposal by Transcorp Power, the Vice-Chancellor noted, means the University was in the right direction. However, he pointed out that the University would not be going into partnership as consumers as the institution desires solution that can give its Engineering students experience.

Professor Atayero described the initiative by Transcorp Power as a good beginning, adding that there would be further discussions between representatives of the University and the company.

Also in the Transcorp Power entourage were its Group Chief Finance Officer, Mr. Ibikunle Oriola and Projects Head, Mr. Funto Amire.

And other representatives of Covenant University at the meeting were the Registrar, Mrs. Mary Aboyade; Dean, College of Engineering, Professor Christian Bolu; Director, Vice-Chancellor’s Office, Dr. David Omole; and Deputy Director, Media and Corporate Affairs, Mr. Emmanuel Igban.

http://www.energywatchng.com/transcorp-power-seeks-partnership-cu-solar-energy/

I think 5 megawatts may be enough for the uni.
The whole living faith is producing 15 MW via the gas plant, so CU needs to diversify its own electricity into solar energy especially because In a few month Canaancity(15,000 housing estate) and faith theatre(100,000 worship auditorium) would be connected to the Canaanland gas plant which may reduce CU's share of energy. They need to be fast as CU's energy need is also growing larger as they bring in new equipments for their new research hub..

The proposal by Transcorp Power, the Vice-Chancellor noted, means the University was in the right direction. However, he pointed out that the University would not be going into partnership as consumers as the institution desires solution that can give its Engineering students experience.
Can u see wisdom at play?? Thinking how to domesticate d idea,as a leader always look forward to making such point

Statsocial:
I think 5 megawatts should be enough for the uni.

CU don't relax they push for more; comfortzone is not allowed In that school

Welcome to naija

After generating this Electricity, Nigerians will still wanna pay 100k to attend such school. Na wa o

osahonmk:
Transcorp Power, a subsidiary of the Transcorp Group business conglomerate, has expressed its desire to partner with Covenant University with a view to exploring solar energy generation and utilization in Nigeria.

The Group General Counsel, Transcorp Power, Mr. Christopher Ezeafulukwe, made this disclosure on Friday, February 10, 2017, when he led representatives of his organisation including that of its partner, ENGIE, on a courtesy visit to the Management of Covenant University.

Mr. Ezeafulukwe, who bemoaned what he described as the “critical situation” with power supply in Nigeria, said that changes in government policies have had a drastic effect on Transcorp Power’s investment and, in its efforts at finding a solution to the challenge, the company had partnered with power producer, ENGIE, on solar energy.

“We did preliminary work to identify stakeholders whose power we would need to address. One is the tertiary education sector, then Covenant University came up,” he said.

While acknowledging the giant strides being made by Covenant University in the areas of teaching, research and provision of infrastructure, Mr. Ezeafulukwe said that Transcorp Power was at Covenant University to understand the University’s energy needs, and areas where his company and the University can work together within the purview of what Transcorp Power was doing with ENGIE.

Shedding light on the operation of his organization, the Chief Executive Officer of ENGIE, Mr. Philipe Miguele, said that energy system was going through significant evolution and ENGIE was set to launch a significant investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, with the goal of helping customers in growing their energy generation capacity.

ENGIE, he pointed out, wants to partner with Covenant University on power generation and help to reduce the University’s cost as solar energy generation is cost effective.

In his comments, the Director, Physical Planning and Development, Covenant University, Arc. Gbenga Alalade, who expressed appreciation of what Transcorp Power and ENGIE were doing, narrated the evolution of power generation and utilization in CU since inception up to 2015 when the University migrated fully to its own power project, which currently stands at 5.67 megawatts. Power production, he added, would be increased to 10.8 megawatts by the end of 2017.

Arc. Alade revealed that the ultimate goal of Covenant University is renewable energy with focus on solar, wind and waste. It would be ideal, he enthused, for the University and Transcorp Power to work together.

Dr. Hope Orovwode, who represented the Head, Renewable Energy Cluster, CU, Professor Samuel Wara, at the meeting, said that the renewable energy cluster has been doing a lot on solar and the next step was to make it cost effective. The coming of Transcorp Power, he stressed, was timely, and Covenant University would be willing to learn from the company towards making energy accessible to Nigerians.

In his remarks, the Vice-Chancellor, Covenant University, Professor AAA. Atayero, said he was not surprised that Transcorp Power had chosen to work with Covenant University, attributing the decision to divine providence.

He said that the University had gone through many phases in its desire to find a permanent solution to its power needs and currently uses the turbine but looking at shifting to sustainable energy.

The proposal by Transcorp Power, the Vice-Chancellor noted, means the University was in the right direction. However, he pointed out that the University would not be going into partnership as consumers as the institution desires solution that can give its Engineering students experience.

Professor Atayero described the initiative by Transcorp Power as a good beginning, adding that there would be further discussions between representatives of the University and the company.

Also in the Transcorp Power entourage were its Group Chief Finance Officer, Mr. Ibikunle Oriola and Projects Head, Mr. Funto Amire.

And other representatives of Covenant University at the meeting were the Registrar, Mrs. Mary Aboyade; Dean, College of Engineering, Professor Christian Bolu; Director, Vice-Chancellor’s Office, Dr. David Omole; and Deputy Director, Media and Corporate Affairs, Mr. Emmanuel Igban.

http://www.energywatchng.com/transcorp-power-seeks-partnership-cu-solar-energy/

. An American ones said, if the Nigerian government can take a cue from what some of our churches are in terms of administration and infrastructural development, the country would be better. A university generating her own energy needs, own food and many others shows how better and well organized they are. The church is the only solution to Nigeria problem. Some of you will get hard on cos my view but that's the truth. The government should go to some of our religious leaders who have various thriving businesses and infrastructure development capacity and learn.

BrutalJab:
After generating this Electricity, Nigerians will still wanna pay 100k to attend such school. Na wa o

The thing just weak me.

Two scams partnering Oyedepo and Jimoh Ibrahim....scam of the century

Okies27:
. An American ones said, if the Nigerian government can take a cue from what some of our churches are in terms of administration and infrastructural development, the country would be better. A university generating her own energy needs, own food and many others shows how better and well organized they are. The church is the only solution to Nigeria problem. Some of you will get hard on cos my view but that's the truth. The government should go to some of our religious leaders who have various thriving businesses and infrastructure development capacity and learn.

lolz...

Okies27:
. An American ones said, if the Nigerian government can take a cue from what some of our churches are in terms of administration and infrastructural development, the country would be better. A university generating her own energy needs, own food and many others shows how better and well organized they are. The church is the only solution to Nigeria problem. Some of you will get hard on cos my view but that's the truth. The government should go to some of our religious leaders who have various thriving businesses and infrastructure development capacity and learn.

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Transcorp that was among the entities that ruined electricity distribution in Nigeria...

Ademat7:

CU don't relax they push for more; comfortzone is not allowed In that school

you want to blow the school.....if they school needs 5 mw so they will be generating 100 because they push for more

If una like keep discouraging private universities, we will keep blazing the trail, Nigeria! The only country that never appreciate home grown innovations. Kudos to our sister university Covenant University much love from Bowen University alumnus

Ademat7:

CU don't relax they push for more; comfortzone is not allowed In that school

lol, no be only comfort zone.
unless they plan to sell this power(which they can't) or they expect some huge load increase, there is no point in producing more energy than required, because it would be a waste of money, time and energy.
N.B you cannot store this power(in a substantial amount), it is used as it is produced

To the topic
This is a good development.

With the help of German Govt, UI will be generating 30MW from solar energy by the end of the year.

Other Unis should take a cue.

TheBatman:

lol, no be only comfort zone.
unless they plan to sell this power(which they can't) or they expect some huge load increase, there is no point in producing more energy than required, because it would be a waste of money, time and energy.
N.B you cannot store this power(in a substantial amount), it is used as it is produced

To the topic
This is a good development.

True. However the school needs its own independent source since in 6 months a 15,000 housing estate somewhere in Ota might start sharing the electricity produced in Canaanland, which by the way is costly because It is a gas plant. They would be diversifying into the use of waste and solar power...

Super1Star:
With the help of German Govt, UI will be generating 30MW from solar energy by the end of the year.

Other Unis should take a cue.

UI should certainly produce more Than CU. But I believe 15 MW is more than enough for CU. But we are all still kidding ourselves, the uni of Nebraska produces 11000 MW but am glad CU,UI and Unilorin are all leading the way in independent power generation.

Okies27:
. An American ones said, if the Nigerian government can take a cue from what some of our churches are in terms of administration and infrastructural development, the country would be better. A university generating her own energy needs, own food and many others shows how better and well organized they are. The church is the only solution to Nigeria problem. Some of you will get hard on cos my view but that's the truth. The government should go to some of our religious leaders who have various thriving businesses and infrastructure development capacity and learn.

When it comes to administration the Indigenous Nigerian Churches can govern a country.

Super1Star:
With the help of German Govt, UI will be generating 30MW from solar energy by the end of the year.

Other Unis should take a cue.

Na so, i'll modify my comment once people start utilizing this 30MW

Okies27:
. [/b]An American ones said, if the Nigerian government can take a cue from what some of our churches are in terms of administration and infrastructural development, the country would be better.[b] A university generating her own energy needs, own food and many others shows how better and well organized they are. The church is the only solution to Nigeria problem. Some of you will get hard on cos my view but that's the truth. The government should go to some of our religious leaders who have various thriving businesses and infrastructure development capacity and learn.

That is because things are managed as a business. If we learn to run things like a business/corporation, we'll move forward. Business doesn't know sentiments. An example is Singapore.

mn09abk:
Two scams partnering Oyedepo and Jimoh Ibrahim....scam of the century

False. Transcorp is owned by Tony Elumelu.

Statsocial:

UI should certainly produce more Than CU. But I believe 15 MW is more than enough for CU. But we are all still kidding ourselves, the uni of Nebraska produces 11000 MW but am glad CU,UI and Unilorin are all leading the way in independent power generation.

Is Uni of Nebraska producing for only self usage or for neighbouring towns an cities too, coz 11,000 MW is more than what Nigeria is even producing which presently at a peak of Almost 4,000MW.

adegoody:


Must u qoute everything

. Teach me abeg, so I don't have to quote the entire write up.

Nigeria needs more of this since our public supplier is not meeting up.
I even encourage households to go get at least a solar panel so the over reliance on generator and PHCN will reduce.

Statsocial:
I think 5 megawatts may be enough for the uni.
The whole living faith is producing 15 MW via the gas plant, so CU needs to diversify its own electricity into solar energy especially because In a few month Canaancity(15,000 housing estate) and faith theatre(100,000 worship auditorium) would be connected to the Canaanland gas plant which may reduce CU's share of energy. They need to be fast as CU's energy need is also growing larger as they bring in new equipments for their new research hub..

I don't think you read the entire article otherwise you would read where the management stated that they are focused on increasing their generation.

I see prophecies being fulfilled

Reading frim Ondo state
Check mai signature

SAVEDBABA:
you want to blow the school.....if they school needs 5 mw so they will be generating 100 because they push for more

excess power is fed back to national grid i believe

Statsocial:
I think 5 megawatts may be enough for the uni.
The whole living faith is producing 15 MW via the gas plant, so CU needs to diversify its own electricity into solar energy especially because In a few month Canaancity(15,000 housing estate) and faith theatre(100,000 worship auditorium) would be connected to the Canaanland gas plant which may reduce CU's share of energy. They need to be fast as CU's energy need is also growing larger as they bring in new equipments for their new research hub..

wait wait wait hol on hol on hol on
You mean living faith has a gas plant?
Which living faith are we talking about?

Super1Star:
With the help of German Govt, UI will be generating 30MW from solar energy by the end of the year.

Other Unis should take a cue.

really wen dis happen?

Statsocial:

UI should certainly produce more Than CU. But I believe 15 MW is more than enough for CU. But we are all still kidding ourselves, the uni of Nebraska produces 11000 MW but am glad CU,UI and Unilorin are all leading the way in independent power generation.

why does Nebraska produce electricity? Dem no get Nepa for there?
Chei we are not even serious.
Na only handout and kerewa our lecturers sabi