seanswitch:
Okay

"The power project will have three phases: to take Nigeria’s operational capacity of the grid from less than 5,000MW to 7000MW by 2021; further increase the capacity to 11,000MW by 2023; and achieve total operational generation and national grid capacity to 25,000MW by 2025.

In July 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari approved the payment of €15.21 million and N1.708 billion as counterpart funding for the PPI.

Speaking on the new development, Suleiman said the pre-engineering phase of the project would be completed in 10 months."

“We are not adding any generation capacity but we want to make sure that we fix the dilapidated transmission and distribution networks.

“We are doing the pre-engineering for the distribution network of this country. We have already got a letter of credit from the Federal Government to start it.

“The design is done in our head office. For the transmission scope, we were given initially 11 sites; they have added 22 sites.

“Execution is when you go to sites. But in the next three months, we want to start putting the proposal for phase one together, not when we finish the pre-engineering.

“So, if phase one goes into reality before the end of the current administration, it means we would have been able to move from 4,500MW to 7,000MW.”

That is a lot of work o

NGpatriot:



I was expecting you to speak your North Central Hausa Fulani language, abi you are not from the North again?

Den don take lies and fraud, swear for you Igbos..

I guess you are demented.....Check all post... I am proudly Kwaran.... Why must you see every one opposing your view as ipob...

Omooba77:


I guess you are demented.....Check all post... I am proudly Kwaran.... Why must you see every one opposing your view as ipob...

What is the meaning of this ipob rubbish?

I asked you to reply me in your North Central Hausa Fulani language..

Silly abia village ipob..

NGpatriot:



What is the meaning of this ipob rubbish?

I asked you to reply me in your North Central Hausa Fulani language..

Silly abia village ipob..

Otun mo iya Osho ju Osho lo.... OK I am what you said....You do well by being unprogrammed....

DubaiLandLord1:
If no Nigerian companies can do some of the work now, then I feel the FG should just make the Germans do majority of the work

The only reason the FG is dragging her foot and shouting local content is because Nigerians are still paying for Power Supply they are not using.

I blame Nigerians for all this shit sha.

After Siemens do this project and power supply increase, then we can start insisting on massive local content when we wanna expand from 20,000MW.

Nigerians need power supply, local content should not be used in delaying this project.

The ones that Nigerians cant do, should be transferred to the Germans.

The main aim for now is for electricity supply to Nigerians should improve.

If not for generator and solar, I hardly have up to 3hrs power supply daily

This has been my thought on this project, we can start with say 30% local content with an agreement for 100% transfer in say 20 years. Let us understudy them especially in maintenance area and imbibe the culture.we can even use local content as an edge when discussing funding. This is doable.

Nigerians are sick and tired of hearing cock and bull stories yet nothing happens. We are in haste to see the end of these visionless administration.

Omooba77:


Otun mo iya Osho ju Osho lo.... OK I am what you said....You do well by being unprogrammed....

Stop speaking vernacular, I don't understand your rubbish.

You can not even speak proper English..

COMPAQ:


This is just typical shallow Nigerian news without details.

Can anyone tell me exactly how Siemens plans to get us from our current paltry 4000MW to 7000MW? Is it by providing gas to existing under utilized gas plants? If so, where is the gas magically going to come from? Or do they plan to deploy grid scale solar and wind?

And then how are we to get from 7000MW to 11,000MW and then on the 25,000MW. Even if money were not an impediment, that sort of jump would still be very challenging to pull off, given the so many things that can go wrong with executing a project like this in Nigeria beyond the financial aspects.

As far as I'm concerned this is all just shallow talk, as there is no concrete plan!!

As you rightly said, yes we have power plants sitting idly. I think Siemens plans to optimize our transmission infrastructure so that those idle power plants can come on stream