Ileke-IdI:

Nigeria’s electricity-generation capacity is expected to rise to 6,939 megawatts by April and 14,019 megawatts by December 2013, the presidency said today, without saying what current output is.

Ileke-IdI:

@KoboJ

"We're getting there"

Up Jonathan! Jonathan for 2011!
The man has been quietly delivering and laying the groundwork for Nigeria's metamorphosis.

@Beaf

I agree with u on this one,and i have been preaching this since day one. . .

Uncle Jo for President. . . .

The man understands what it means to source long term funds(outside the FG yrly budget)and use same to build out infrastructure

Sharon_f:

KEYWORD : PLANS

Ileke-IdI:

It has already been approved sweety

Sharon_f:

Thanks
Approved plan still dey on paper. Anyway Il be back to this thread in 4 years.(if Nairaland hasnt crumbled).
Even Yar'Adua approved his 'plans'. He's dead now so. . .

Beaf:


How can you compare Yar Adua to Jonathan? How can you even compare Yar Adua to anybody?

The 700-kilovolt “super grid” will be completed within four years

mikeansy:

Someone should help me analyse if the above will make any significant difference to the situation of Lagos alone let alone Nigeria.

If we can analyse the details and confirm this makes a difference then we can get excersized about Jonathan's efforts.

Sharon_f:

Cant you see its a SUPER-GRID. Not just ordinary grid, SUPER GRID.
SUPER GRID!

Sharon_f:

Please highlight their key differences. I remember a certain 7 point agenda that has been completely forgotten. . .or was it 9 or 10 point agenda. We forget Johnathan was vice-president to Yar'adua. He was not a different presidential candidate, he is part and parcel of Yar'adua's administration.
Anyway, like I said what is different from the two in your view?

Kobojunkie:

hang in there. . . . we will soon know how much longer we will have to wait for this seemingly illusive change in this country. . .

Sharon_f:

Please highlight their key differences. I remember a certain 7 point agenda that has been completely forgotten. . .or was it 9 or 10 point agenda. We forget Johnathan was vice-president to Yar'adua. He was not a different presidential candidate, he is part and parcel of Yar'adua's administration.
Anyway, like I said what is different from the two in your view?

Sharon_f:

By building 700volt SUPER-GRID we get SUPER ELECTRICITY. in 4 years the SUPER ELECTRICITY will power the SUPER NIGERIANS and then we can build our ULTRA GRID for ULTRA ELECTRICITY

Sharon_f:

You know what?
Why dont we only post topics that have
'Work starts on . . . project' or 'Pictures of construction of. . .' and stop posting topics on 'Plans in motion to. . .' or 'FG sets up committee'

mikeansy:

Right thought u were serious, anyway your joke was funny and appreciated.

@ All

Anyone know the implication of this addition 700-Kilovolt? thats if the project will be delivered.

Beaf:

It is a grid that has the capacity to cater for Nigeria's future needs. It will be robust enough to handle increments in power generation for quite a long time (that depends on the area it covers though).
700 Kilovolts is some really serious transmission line capacity as far as Nigeria is concerned. You will find that most transmission lines around the World are below 350 Kilovolts.

Beaf:

@mikeansy
I might not have done a good enough job with my explanation above, you might get a better idea from reading this article about China's planned 750-Kilovolt sytem http://www.electricityforum.com/news/jun08/Chinaboostsgridconnections.html

Beaf:

It is a grid that has the capacity to cater for Nigeria's future needs. 700 Kilovolts is some really serious transmission line capacity as far as Nigeria is concerned. You will find that most transmission lines around the World are below 350 Kilovolts.

mikeansy:

Right fair enough, now this is clearer. This is the capacity of the electricity transmission network?

right thats fair enough. We will see, signing off projects is the easy bit, implementation is where the hard work is. We have seen loads of project sign off since independence and the President should know that in this day and age people can monitor progress.

Well done for now while I keep my fingers crossed and see if this amounts to anything.

Beaf:

Some Nigerians are never appreciative of anything and most are crowd followers who will say anything to "seem" cool.

Do you remember the long fuel queues? They were part of everyday life just a few months ago.
Have you not noticed very positive changes to power supply?
Have you not witnessed that for the first time since independence, oil companies have set aside money to tackle oil spills?
Are you not witnessing the sincere efforts to introduce credible elections?
Have you not witnessed the ground swelling restructuring of the oil sector?

Have you not witnessed a clear difference in governing style? I will give an example; a man wilfully blocked Jonathans motorcade in Abuja. Today, that man is alive, without a scratch from the episode. He was taken to court. . . But then, some Nigerians love to be beaten up and spat on, so they might not appreciate such changes.

I could go on and on about the deep and positive changes Jonathan has brought about in 3 short months, one short post is hardly enough.