Lagos Plans New Independent Power Project

Its hard to believe, but if he succeed in doing it, then he is the best governor in Nigeria.

The governor's office has issued a rebuttal to the story on the planned IPP. The story is false. Lagos state is NOT building any IPP in partnership with Singapore. Here is a quote from the governor's website:

Press Releases

IPP: Singapore Power Company Only On Exploratory Visit – LASG

Mar 11, 2009 - The Lagos State Government has debunked a media report that it has entered into partnership with the Singapore Power Company to build a power plant in the State.

In a press release Wednesday, the State Government explained that the team from SP Global Solutions, the consultancy arm of Singapore Power Company, was in Lagos last week on an exploratory visit to understand the current power situation in the State.

The Government further said that the team was expected to return to Singapore to consider the possibility of assisting the Lagos State Government to draw up a blue print on improving the transmission and distribution of power in Lagos.

While regretting any inconvenience caused by the incorrect reporting of the issue involved in the visit of the team from Singapore, the State Government enjoined the media to ascertain their facts before going to press.

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na wa o, so many proposals, first it was the niger-delta rail link to lagos by some consortium 

All in all he is doing well, if most state government are doing as much we wont be concentrating on the FG
let the states do their bits for the country!

I have said it over and over again the problem is not power generating the problem is HOW DOES COMPANY X, Y AND Z GET THEIR MONEY FOR THE POWER THEY GENERATED?

You think those companies that make generators dont know they can make enough money by generating power? At what cost and how do they get their money. We that we have a culture of not paying light bill in nigeria?

Who will put his money into power generation when they know that they can sell generators to you and you pay cash and there is no more talk of any bills? TRULY SIN A REPROACH TO A NATION.

Our trying to beat corners has caught up with us.

We must build up our power infrastructure that include networking the whole nation to the national grid.
There must be need for us to put a juicy power rate that will bring people into the business of power generation.

IF THERE IS POWER GENERATION THE NETWORKING PROBLEM WILL BE SOLVED. WE CAN DO IT.

dem don come with dem story!!!

You have never posted anything positive on nairaland

You probably had never succeeded in anything you did in the past,
that is why you don't believe anything can work?

I give kudos to Fashola. May God continue to bless you with wisdom to lead us right.
After your 2nd term, I nominate you for Presidency.

Norway is a very Oil rich country, yet the future of Norway's power supply does not rely on it's oil and gas fields. Nigeria meanwhile, has very large gas deposits that are now being targeted for supply of power. Industrialization in Nigeria has not begun yet, but we are coming up with various figures on our power needs merely based on today's usage.

We have to remember that South Africa was built on a solid foundation, and were good at futures projections. However, her growth has exceeded those projections and it's power grid now needs more injection. South Africa should be a model for what to expect from Nigerian Industrialization.

Anyone who drives along Bar Beach or any of the coastal beaches in Nigeria will notice the abundance of 3 things on the typical day. These are; Wind, Sun, and waves. Gas powered plants could directly drive turbines or heat up water, which then drives turbines. The process requires equipment that have parts that need servicing more frequently than some other technologies.

Wind Turbines nowadays produce up to 7 Megawatts of power each, and Wave technology has been advanced to a stage where many European countries are adopting it in their power strategies. Solar farms are a big business in the United States and the government gives huge grants to businesses that pursue this technology to provide power. Within the next 2 years, the costs of producing Solar power will be highly reduced because of the emergence of more manufacturers of the parts that drive this process. It is also obvious that when you burn fossil fuels, you will also have a high amount of particulate emissions.

My Question is: What is wrong with our leaders? Why are we allowing Oyimbo to sell us their outdated technologies and continue to proliferate a culture of backwardness in Africa? Are we expected to stay behind in all things? At what point will we begin to try to catchup?

In a way, one can look at the feasibility of Gas fueled plants in terms of the relatively low cost of gas in Nigeria, but have we truly analyzed all the costs? What about the emissions? What about the cost of developing the gas plants that will have to refine the gas for use in the power plants? What about the costs and maintenance of the pipelines to run gas to the power plants?

Nigeria needs to develop a culture of doing complete Life Cycles Cost Analysis of any project that is supposedly for the benefit of the people.

Life Cycle Costs Analysis determines the real costs of these projects through their useful lives or major rehabilitation. Historical probability costs should be included, such as the potential of the pipelines being disrupted. Comparable technology Cost/Benefit factors need to be considered as well.

Norway, as well as most European/American governments never embark on projects without being thorough in their evaluations. It is unfortunate that Nigerians just fall prey to unscrupulous foreign companies who present loads of paper to confuse and fool government officials who are not willing to do the work to read through and understand possibilities. However, you will be surprised to find that in these European and American agencies, there is a large pool of Nigerians and Africans working to build and set policies. The greed and corruption in Nigeria allows a few unread/unqualified looters to determine strategic positions that will affect the future of many Nigerians.

Until there is a freedom of Information act that enables private citizens to act as watchdogs for Nigeria, we shall continue to be flooded with outdated and unreasonable solutions to our issues. We should all make it a matter of principle to become activists in securing the future of Nigeria. We should embark on making sure that we have the right to know what the government intends to feed us for our collective futures. it is only logical that our policies and decisions should mirror those of the countries of the people feeding us our future technologies.

Look it is to the benefit of the federal govt to hand off the networks in state, i mean transmission and distribution. it as nothing to do with south or north, even it is more to the advantage of the north than the south.

Why do i say so. You do not need too much power in the north.  The real problem of NEPA comes from the south. If you do this. most northern state would have 24 X 7 electricity.

They need little energy. Having a grid system that links them with south create problem for them. But if they are standalone. The northern state can manage it well. they require little energy . But places in the south. kick them off the grid and the north would have 24hrs supply.

state have to own thier own network and connect to the national grid.

Even look NEPA is not making money, this way NEPA makes money, since they are seller of energy. They sell energy to state and the state now sell the energy to you.

If NEPA sell to state , they get paid, if the state sell to people  it is not NEPA business if they get pay. NEPA would have money all the time , and they can build more generating station.

let me exmple.

If NEPA hand over the transmission and distribution today.  They sell energy to state say lagos for 2 billion naira. They get paid and And lagos sell the energy to you.

Now NEPA have 2 billion. It has less over head to take care of. And would have so much money in its bank to build generating station because the more generating station NEPA built the more money it makes.

This reduce the number of staff in lagos.  And one think about electricity is that it stop transfer of staffs from state to state. Which is not good in engineering. If i troubleshoot a system for many years. It would take you less than 10 minute if it break down to restore. but if you move staff around it takes 20 times the times to trouble shoot.

The staff can now work for the state board and they can decide to change board. To the state which pays more for thier skills.

another thing about this is state can sell power too. So a state like Niger, adamawa, pleteau, kogi, benue state and others which have no other revenue apart from the federal govt can now start selling energy to other state that needs it. Like lagos.

Look a state like bauchi state which makes sugar cane can use the molasis recycle to generate electricity and now resell to lagos or ogun state.

Look if i am minister of energy, i go resolve the problem.

state like sokoto, kano, bauchi, katsina ,gombe, yobe , borno etc have no other source of revenue apart from the federal govt. If you allow them to buy energy from NEPA , they can resell the energy to the citizen of the state. This way they general revenue.  It is the same thing over here. So that this state would stop been waiting for federal allocation every month.

becomerich , how come you now say sensible thing like that.

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I dont think Tinubu wanted it to be part of the National Grind. The Federal Government took it for Lagos state, mostly becasue Obasanjo was hell bent on making things hard for Tinubu.

The crazy part of all this is the federal government deducts money from lagos states' monthly federal allocation to maintain the power plant it is not getting much MW from.

I think he is trying in the IPP stuff, for example the biggest water plants in lagos that is only working 5-6 hrs a day due to shortage of power supply will be run by an IPP   which will increase it to 20 hrs a day. So we will see, i guess

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/metro/article01/indexn2_html?pdate=230309&ptitle=Raising%20hopes%20for%20thirsty%20Lagosians


"Currently, the Adiyan-Iju Water Works produces 115 million gallons daily (MGD), but can only pump 30 percent for public consumption as a result of irregular power supply.

That is a situation that warranted the establishment of dedicated power project. "After the completion of the power project, water would be pumped for at least, 20 hours daily, instead of the current four or six hours.

The IPP project has a design capacity of 12.15 mega watts and is expected to be completed by May, 2009."

@Becomrrich;

I thought you would have suggested that the New Republic of Benin supply lagos state with constant power 

I am never a praise singer but this is one of the best and honest piece I had read from Nairaland. Precisely what I had always said about Nigerian problem. Nigerians don't know how to harness intelligent, they often mix up intelligent with intellectuality. Becomerich thinks that being an engineer qaulifies him to be a successful minister of power generation.
 Being a medical doctors doesn't make one a good minister of health etc, which is exactly how Nigerians in power based their appointments on.
A minister is like a businessman, that uses every skill from man management, negotiations etc in order to get his/her work done.

Not until true federalism is practiced in Nigeria, where every region or state can do what they like economically to improve or survive, Nigeria will continue to stagnet. A situation where a poor student is hold back until a poor one catched up is what is killing Nigeria. If Tinubu/Fashola was allowed to succeed in their effort through their govt or through PPI, who knows how many other states that would had been encouraged to copy them. A life without positive competititon is really worthless.

it's a good move and i believe other states should do same also