The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said the Afam power station will add 340 megawatts of electricity to the national grid in or before December.


The minister made this known during his visit to Afam Plant in Oyibo local government area of Rivers as part of Federal Government Power Sector Recovery Programme.



He said: “Afam 1 to 5 power plants is currently producing about 100 megawatts which is as a result of failure to maintain the facility over the years.


“We are here to assess the progress of the work we have been doing in the last 17 to 18 months aimed to get the facility back to its optimum capacity.


“The Afam 5 plant is currently being rehabilitated in collaboration with General Electric to restore 240 megawatts to the facility.



“All the turbine and equipment needed for the project are already in the country while the only challenge we are facing is the access road, logistic and few other things that we came to assess.



“We think that we will add 240 megawatts and another 100 megawatts before December with addition of 276 megawatts in 2018 from Afam power plant alone,” he said.


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