ABB has received a $700 million contract to produce offshore wind power.
It will build three wind parks in the North Sea for transpower, the German transmission grid operator.

The three wind parks will supply a total output of 800 megawatts to mainland Germany, ABB announced on Friday.

ABB will use the eco-friendly high-voltage direct current (HVDC) technology to connect the wind parks’ power to the network.

The clean energy will have to travel 165 kilometres under water and land.

ABB will be responsible for the development, design, delivery and installation of the various platforms, stations and connecting cables.

The power should begin flowing in 2013.

Compare that amount 700mil USD and 800MW to Mr Obasanjo spending 16billion to give us DARKENESS.

Nigerians are so ignorant of what goes on around them.

Going by above 16billionUSD should power for us 10,000MW.

Alas, NIGERIANS got NOTHING and did NOTHING.

otawa:

Compare that amount 700mil USD and 800MW to Mr Obasanjo spending 16billion to give us DARKENESS.

Nigerians are so ignorant of what goes on around them.

Going by above 16billionUSD should power for us 10,000MW.

Alas, NIGERIANS got NOTHING and did NOTHING.

That is why we are called Nigerians

Another story pls, wetin concern me with german wind mill?

GoldCircle:

Another story pls, wetin concern me with german wind mill?

you are a typical Nigerian.

in all these, what you see is the wind mill rather than money well spent for their own people.

no wonder Nigerians are swimming across the ocean to go to same Germany.

Please, someone should clear our ignorance. The way you people give a detail of this fairytale 800 MW German ocean wind power which does not exist, can you also give us details of the $16 billion? When was it released? To whose account was it paid? Please details, not just the mentioning of the figure.

And please, for future references, it makes no sense to compare what does not exist yet to what does not exist at all. Don't compare promises with assumptions unless you live in 2013. Or are you also going to chastise South Africa as to why Nigeria's Vision 202020 surpasses their own projections too?

Please details of the $16 billion and not mere mention of an assumption.

the bottom-line is Nigeria has spent Billions$ from 2000-2010 without anything to show for it

Nobody knows how much obj budgeted or planned or released, but the koko of the matter is that some $XXbillion has been spent on the power sector without improvement

_{XBillion (there must be a reason why the FG cant announce how much they've spent)}

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It blows fairly well in northern nigeria i think.

@nex

Exactly just give the details of the stolen fund. unsubstantiated rubish would just give impetus for the civil service to get away with thievery.

Why are we so daft. If you can give me proof here I would be the first to cast the stone.

It is like we are saying we hate our brains,