Man Builds Own Power Plant From Scratch And Connects Electricity To His Entire Village

Let me start by saying; there is no iota of doubt that Nigeria have best brains in every expect of life and talents are being wasted because nobody to sponsor most of this young and vibrant individuals. One of such individual today, regardless of the constraints and disabilities has come up with a power plant. His name is John Magiro Wangari.

According to Naij.com, this young man started toying with the idea of using his brother's bicycle's dynamo to produce energy because of the fact that they hardly have electricity and are confined to using only lamps and other achaic methods of lightening. He pondered over how the dynamo worked to produce light while riding the bicycle.

Wangari explained:

"I decided to combine the dynamo with an alternator from a car and took it to a waterfall. When the water spins the turbine, the turbine in turns spins the alternator, which then produces energy."a Wngari saw this as the only way he could address the challenge of using Kerosene lamps which posed many people to respiratory diseases as noted by health experts.

As of today, he has built a fully functional mini power plant and connected 250 homes in Murang'a county with affordable electricity.

Among those who have benefited from Wangari's self-made hydro-power include his village mate Shem Chege. According to Shem Chege, who is currently one of Wangari's customers, the rural electricity has had a huge impact in his house.

Chege said:

"It has helped us a lot. Back then I was using kerosene as source of light and for reading. Now I use the electricity to read and the children use it to do their homework."

The government has since taken note of the life-changing rural electrification initiative and has offered to support Wangari's project. According to Wangary, "They wanted to reward me for the renewable power plant. They gave me two transformers so that I could grow my business and sell affordable electricity to the villagers."

He now plans to double the connection from 250 homes in his village by building sub micro-hydro plants in other counties.


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Our govt needs to liberalise the power sector to allow for individual generation and selling of electric power. I have been thinking of similar project lately but the thought of govt monopoly always give me some hiccups. Liberalisation and imposition of tax to individuals will go a long way in reducing the acute power shortage, create employment etc. But what do I know, the govt may have her reason.

Wow

If this happens in Nigeria, bad belle NEPA people might not let him succeed knowing the fact he generates money from his electricity distribution. Kudos to him

The moment I saw the fellow's name I knew he was Kenyan, shame on the OP for claiming that he is a Nigerian. There is nothing wrong in acknowledging the nationality of the man.

Hearing is believing, seeing is also believing..

VULCAN:
The moment I saw the fellow's name I knew he was Kenyan, shame on the OP for claiming that he is a Nigerian. There is nothing wrong in acknowledging the nationality of the man.

Thank you.

No wonder he didn't mention the state where it happened. I read the post twice to catch the location, only thing I got was Murang County.

Just wondering what the originator of the article is trying to achieve from giving false information.