The Federal Government has outlined nine completed and ongoing hydropower projects being prepared to add 2,672 megawatts of electricity to the national grid.

It outlined the projects in its latest document containing the status of the country’s hydropower sector, which was obtained from the Federal Ministry of Water Resources in Abuja by our correspondent on Monday.

Data from the FMWR showed that the nine projects were located in five states including Kaduna, Taraba, Gombe, Benue and Nasarawa.

They include the 30MW Gurara I hydropower project in Kaduna, completed and put on concession; 360MW Gurara II plant, also in Kaduna, with its engineering, procurement and construction contract already awarded.

Others include the Kashimbila, Dadin-Kowa and Itisi hydropower projects with capacities of 40MW each and located in Taraba, Gombe and Kaduna states respectively.

The government said both the Kashimbila and Dadin-Kowa hydropower projects had been completed and were ready for concession, while a Memorandum of Understanding had been signed with Kaduna State on the Itisi project.

It said three other hydropower projects, namely, Bawarku, 182MW; Makurdi, 1,500MW; and Katsina-Ala, 460MW, were all located in Benue State.



The ministry stated that the Bawarku Hydropower project was in its Outline Business Case approval stage by the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission, while the Makurdi project was undergoing re-validation of the ICRC certification.

The Outline Business Case for the Katsina-Ala Hydropower project was currently ongoing, according to the FMWR.

The government named the ninth power plant as the 20MW Farin-Ruwa Hydropower project in Nasarawa State, adding that the facility had been awarded and would soon add to the quantum of electricity on the national grid.

“Nigeria has a hydropower potential of 12,220MW, unfortunately, less than 2,000MW of this has been developed at Kainji, Jebba and Shiroro dams,” the FMWR stated.

It added, “This explains the urgency of harnessing the nation’s hydropower potentials to meet the country’s power needs.”

The ministry said since 2015 it had pursued the goal of completing the many inherited hydropower projects across the country and had recorded successes in this direction.

This came as the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, explained that the Federal Government was not privatising its dams, rather some of the facilities were on concession, particularly those for power generation.

walemoney007:
Everywhere in Nigeria should be having nothing less than 10 hours power supply by now in this 2021.

The FG have failed in the power sector. There is no improvement in the sector for me.

treesun:


You can see the deceit, less than 3000MW will be added by the nine plants and we are being told Siemens will make it 25000MW!

treesun:


You can see the deceit, less than 3000MW will be added by the nine plants and we are being told Siemens will make it 25000MW!

treesun:


You can see the deceit, less than 3000MW will be added by the nine plants and we are being told Siemens will make it 25000MW!

Saverin:
"to" "will" "shall" "target"

Yeye people. When will they complete anything?

theenchanter:
Siemens will not make the power plants reach 25,000mw, Siemens will only make the transmission infrastructures to be able to transmit 25,000mw of power.

Nigeria's generating plants as at now can produce roughly 13,000mw, but only less than 6,000 can be transmitted, lest the transmission infrastructures collapse (the so called national grid collapse we know). Hence the need for the govt to contract the transmission project to Siemens in order to push the transmission limit to 25,000mw as Siemens has done in Egypt.

Go and learn d difference between generation and transmission.

treesun:


You can see the deceit, less than 3000MW will be added by the nine plants and we are being told Siemens will make it 25000MW!

Ovamboland:


Have small sense, these are reports from Ministry Of Water Resources on dams across rivers with power generating capacities.
There are still thermal power projects ongoing via AKK gas pipeline and renewable energy projects

lexy2014:


But there's nothing u said that is different from what treesun said below:

theenchanter:
they're like two parallel lines.

Ovamboland:


Have small sense, these are reports from Ministry Of Water Resources on dams across rivers with power generating capacities.
There are still thermal power projects ongoing via AKK gas pipeline and renewable energy projects

treesun:


https://punchng.com/nine-hydropower-projects-to-add-2672mw-to-national-grid-fg/

anyilalaz:
We keep on going from stupidity to mediocrity and back to front. All these project are cash cows were politicians loot the country. Most of these hydrodams are not utilized at optimum level more often during the drought and dry seasons. They hardly reach one-half its installed capacity even at highest water level.
All thses amount spent can be use to resuscitate the Oji River power plant in Enugu state and revamp it to up 6000MW capacity or perhaps build another one in Okaba, Ankpa Kogi State. These two areas has abundance deposit of coal.

Most of the powe stations in China, India, Pakistan etc run efficiently on coal with least capacity being around 5,000 MW.

But siting such gigantic project in the East is no no thing for the government because of their hatred for the region. Even the Kogi, being a minority. Below is some coal power plant in China..

treesun:


https://punchng.com/nine-hydropower-projects-to-add-2672mw-to-national-grid-fg/

younglleo:
9 plants for 9 politicians!
The masses arent part of it

GoodHardDick:
Audio.

Stupidity has taken over this government