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Welcome development if finally implemented.

Why we still hold on to this concept of national grid is the reason we are where we are presently. Our transmission infrastructure can't handle more than 5000Mw presently. They should go for off- grid mode.

The cost per kWh is a bit high though compared with what obtains elsewhere. Are we not using the same Sun?

obua:
Who will fund 200 of such solar projects

1,500mw ND not 15000mw

fulanimafia:
Where? In Katsina?

We'd love to see them try

The Govt is gradually but deliberately reducing her reliance on generation infrastructure from the ND . it is a policy of exigency as the nation cannot at all times be held hostage by ND. your son was there for more than six whole years without putting on ground any meaningful project for the people of region, so far PMB have achieved for the North and West what Gej could not in six years. Gej only success was empowering individuals while Pmb is busy signing agreement on solar energy, Ajaokuta and oil exploration in the Chad basin. by the time this present agitation is 20 years and counting without the realisation of the republic and the north and west arternating power in that period while working on infastructure in their zone, then and only then will it dawn on us that we have gone about the whole thing in the wrong way all because of one man who never cared about us but only his friends and cronies . Gej failed to dredge river Niger, he failed to build a dry dock in Niger Delta,, he failed to complete East West road, he failed woefully, if he were my uncle I will say to him, uncle though you empowered me you failed sir, to empower our region economically. content strictly my view.

KingsCity:
if a solar plant can deliver as much as 75MW @ a cost of $146m, then why don't we build build 200 of such plants across the country to get 15000MW and forget about militants and gas powered plants?

I tire o

mhisbliss:
Cool, but why is there a but and if in everything concerning Nigeria

Because Nigeria is fantastically corrupt.

hotspec:
Wait, did i see KATSINA again? Home state of NORTHgerian president? I guess d sun is still missin in Lagos, Aba and PH? and d clouds are so thick dt sun rays can not touch ground.... If all these happened during GEJ tenure, people like Tinubu, soyinka and Afenifere would be shouting high, but now where are they.....? Anyway...

Katsina is a capital of Katsina state. Can you remember that the ineffectual buffoon has established a federal university in his village called Otuoke? The land mass of the whole Otuoke village is not up to the University of Ilorin. Prove me wrong if you have your facts.

adewasco2k:
My personal solar power at home is serving me well.

I hope they get this one up as stipulated

hw many hours a day and hw much it cost u?

Nigerian govt too dey dream with blind eyes. start the work before procrastination.

Whether the generated capacity would be injected into the national grid to serve the whole country as all other power plants or will it be dedicated to serve only a particular part of the country is what I'd be interested to find out.

KingsCity:
if a solar plant can deliver as much as 75MW @ a cost of $146m, then why don't we build build 200 of such plants across the country to get 15000MW and forget about militants and gas powered plants?

$146M *200 is a huge amount of money sir! Gas plants are much cheaper and reliable.

jenti:
solar is sun dependent. It will do better in the north than in the south

my opinion, solar should be available in every state while we have the usual as back up.

With solar available in every state, the militants will find it fruitless to attack gas lines to halt electricity supply knowing their is a reliable backup.

obua:

KingsCity: :
if a solar plant can deliver as much as 75MW @ a cost of $146m, then why don't we build build 200 of such plants across the country to get 15000MW and forget about militants and gas powered plants?

Who will fund 200 of such solar projects

and who is funding this solar project?

FakeNEWSevryday:
$1.94m per megawatts

Which is kind of expensive... 1MW of energy with a gas/hydro plant generator can't be that expensive

Godjone:
APC

You people will never seize to amaze us.

Now, what happened to the over 5000mw GEJ handed to Buhari

What happened is that GEJ handed it over with left hand then sends his Niger Delta Avengers to collect it with right hand

FakeNEWSevryday:
Good point but u forgot funds issues
200 of 75MW will cost us $29.2b, the questions is can we entrust this huge of money in care of our polithiefchians?

Bros,

Private sector will fund it. The only guarantee they need is a guarantee minimum pricing to recoup their investment in reasonable time. Government's involvement will be minimal.

This is what Americal has started, i.e. to generate half of their power from solar in a decade

AgricSalt:
Because Nigeria is fantastically corrupt.

they are other fantastically corrupt nations who are way better than us

kenny81:
We can talk too much... Help me ask FG/Min. of Power about 10mw wind power project that was 90% completed during Jonathan administration in the same Katsina. Is it abadoned project? I weep 4 this country!

It is in final testing stage..... the 2 reports below

Fresh hurdles for N4bn Katsina 10mw wind power
Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/business/fresh-hurdles-for-n4bn-katsina-10mw-wind-power/115708.html#ptO7pgp5o45tpbL5.99

Work remains stalled at the Katsina 10 megawatts wind power farm at Lamber Rimi in Rimi Local Government Area of the State, with a power ministry official saying a report awaits a presidential nod for its completion.
The N4.4 billion project was awarded to a French firm, Messrs Vergnet SA in 2010 and was scheduled for completion in 2012, but it has been suffering from many twists and turns that made the completion date unachievable and stalled progress.




Despite assurances of completion before May this year and eventual commissioning by June, 2015, work is yet to continue at the site four months behind the new target, as the Daily Trust, which visited the site last weekend observed.
Our reporter noticed that the wind turbines mounted had not exceeded four, as we reported in May, out of the slated 37 turbines to power the facility. The total turbines have a rated power of 275 kilowatts mounted at a height of 55 metres. The unmounted 33 turbines still lay decaying at the farm.
The project, which was initiated by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua when he was governor of Katsina State, was subsequently taken over by the Federal Government after he became president in 2007.
About three years ago, the lead contractor was abducted for a year when the project was about 90 per cent completion. Officials at the Federal Ministry of Power said the project would have been completed if the French engineer had not been kidnapped.
The then Minister of State for Power, Hon. Mohammed Wakil, in August, 2014, commissioned a technical audit of the plant, apparently seeking to commission the project by last year end. In a statement, he said, “The Katsina wind farm will soon be commissioned as the technical audit has commenced. Engineers were deployed to site a week ago.”
Wakil disclosed that construction had been transferred to a Nigerian firm trained in France after the original contractors wavered following the abduction of their lead engineer. Former president, Goodluck Jonathan also visited the site in April, 2014 and directed that the project be sped up.
Although it was not commissioned last December as planned, Wakil told Daily Trust that the trainees to audit the plant were rounding off their training in France. “It is a matter of test-running it for commission. That is part of the agreement with the technical contractors to train our local people to take over from them,” he had said.
The Permanent Secretary in the Power Ministry, Dr Godknows Igali told our reporter in May, 2015 that the success of the plant will determine if wind energy can work in the sahelian part of northern Nigeria.
“We joined another company with the original contractor since the first company refused to come back; so another company took over the job and it is about 95 per cent completed. What is left is just a few other details of electrical activities and testing.
“The engineers are on the fifth turbine now for the trial commissioning, out of the 37 wind turbines. The contractor said it should be ready in three weeks, probably by the end of June. The transmission alignment by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to strengthen the grid has also been completed.
“They are test-running it and power will be fed into the transmission line and then stepped down to be used around Katsina town. This is a pilot project and when we see that it is successful, we can then do more in the northern part where there is much wind,” Igali explained.
Worried about the silence that shredded the June target, Daily Trust checks showed that the change in administration dealt another setback to the project as the new government had to be briefed before taking up existing power projects.
A top official at the ministry who spoke in confidence said a letter awaits presidential nod for the plant to be completed and put into use. He admitted that with what he called “years of the unfortunate neglect”, rodents have tampered with the cables, with oil leaks along with other defects. “After the man was rescued, the contractors now said they can continue with the project but they would have a technical audit of the project to correct the fault detected. They just concluded the technical audit.
“They also started the trial commissioning by mounting four or five turbines. The transmission section is already completed and the audit is ready. We have written to the Due Process for the certification and a letter has been written to the President for its continuation,” the official said.
He disclosed that the project would be put in the 2016 power budget for its completion even as its completion status remains at 95 per cent. “Every other equipment needed is there. The transformer that would be operated for it has come in and is already in Lagos,” he added.
Read more at http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/business/fresh-hurdles-for-n4bn-katsina-10mw-wind-power/115708.html#ptO7pgp5o45tpbL5.99


Katsina 10MW wind farm attains 98% completion — FG ON MAY 12, 201512:06 AMIN ENERGY, NEWSCOMMENTS By Chris Ochayi ABUJA: The Federal Government disclosed last weekend that the 10 mega watt, MW, Katsina wind farm has attained 98 percent completion. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power, Amb. Godknows Igali, who said this in Abuja noted that the test running of the 37 turbines in the facility had since begun with five already successfully test-run. He also said the transmission line for the evacuation of the power to be produced is ready through the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, as confirmed by their officials. Igali disclosed further that Government is committed to ensuring the smooth running of this pilot scheme, adding that it planned to replicate it in the entire Northern region, where wind velocity is high, stressing that the harnessing of wind resource is an integral part of the newly approved National Policy on Sustainable Energy and Energy Efficiency. It would be recalled that the delay experienced in the completion of the Katsina wind power project was occasioned by the ugly incident of kidnapping of a French national, who was in-charge of the project and the need to subsequently engage on French company to complete the project. He explained that the wind farm was only one component of the renewable energy programme of the Federal Government, which is being boosted with the recent approval by the Federal Executive Council of the first-ever National Policy on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. The Permanent Secretary identified other renewable energy projects to include small, medium, large hydros as well a solar power projects and bio-mass. He also said that Government has put in place measures to check the menace of power infrastructure vandalism, and appealed to communities and new owners of power facilities to collaborate with Government by being vigilant in exposing the activities of vandals, hence they would be protecting their assets and also provide electricity to the people would make more profit from the project.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/katsina-10mw-wind-farm-attains-98-completion-fg/

fulanimafia:
Dangote gas plant, oil prospecting in the North and oil production in the SW, and now a 75MW solar plant in Katsina?

The scAvengers and their apologists are in for a rude shock

I pity Yoruba people, following the northerns like cow. the president is busy developing north while the VP is busy commissioning those projects. When will the Government do any good thing like in the South.

This will be the second solar plant in Katsina. Funny enough, they seem to have abandoned the old one which seems to be at 70% completion.

adewasco2k:
My personal solar power at home is serving me well.

I hope they get this one up as stipulated

Guy, how much did it cost you to install it? I am planing to do that asap

bigtt76:
We don't do things right in this country naaaaa. We should start with manufacturing the panels locally then the rest will follow.

Madam,

What proven competence do we have in producing solar panels?

What about the abandoned Wind Mill project in Katsina? Some people will be wasting taxpayer's money anyhow on failed projects... **spits**

ikaleguy:
Welcome development if finally implemented.

Why we still hold on to this concept of national grid is the reason we are where we are presently. Our transmission infrastructure can't handle more than 5000Mw presently. They should go for off- grid mode.

The cost per kWh is a bit high though compared with what obtains elsewhere. Are we not using the same Sun?

Nevada Solar One costs $266 million for 72MW. So I think the cost is fair.

aubventure:
I pity Yoruba people, following the northerns like cow. the president is busy developing north while the VP is busy commissioning those projects. When will the Government do any good thing like in the South.

1. Unfortunately, people like you are as ignorant as they come. First off, even if we're to edge our bets, GEJ gave no alternative. What did GEJ do in the South?
2. Secondly, the south has articulated her requirement in a more intelligent manner. We look at the big picture. We simply to wait for singular projects. We follow a developmental plan which we are currently working with the FG. For example we are beneficiaries of the recently signed two rail projects (LAG-Kano, Lag-Calabar).
3. We don't just wake up and start crying for projects. We plan. We make our environment relative more peaceful and accommodating, we make friends with regions in exchange for mutual benefits. Lagos State for example has bought vast lands in the north for agri-Investments. Lagos State government recently signed a business deal with Kebbi state to be joint largest producers of Rice, matching and exceeding the volume we import annually.

But most importantly, the yorubas believe in unity. We want a united and equitably developed Nigeria. We support the development of the north, so that we can have mutual benefits. Unfortunately that is what you hate filled lot don't get

Just when I was giving up on Nairalanders,you came along . Thank you for this

mapet:
1. Unfortunately, people like you are as ignorant as they come. First off, even if we're to edge our bets, GEJ gave no alternative. What did GEJ do in the South?
2. Secondly, the south has articulated her requirement in a more intelligent manner. We look at the big picture. We simply to wait for singular projects. We follow a developmental plan which we are currently working with the FG. For example we are beneficiaries of the recently signed two rail projects (LAG-Kano, Lag-Calabar).
3. We don't just wake up and start crying for projects. We plan. We make our environment relative more peaceful and accommodating, we make friends with regions in exchange for mutual benefits. Lagos State for example has bought vast lands in the north for agri-Investments. Lagos State government recently signed a business deal with Kebbi state to be joint largest producers of Rice, matching and exceeding the volume we import annually.

But most importantly, the yorubas believe in unity. We want a united and equitably developed Nigeria. We support the development of the north, so that we can have mutual benefits. Unfortunately that is what you hate filled lot don't get

Zubby56:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/75mw-solar-power-project-ready-2017/

Hope they restrict to that state to boost their power supply instead of connecting to the national grid

obua:
Who will fund 200 of such solar projects

Federal or state govt as the case may be need only to sell licences to willing investors just as did in the telecom industry. The investors will build and sell the power while govt will also form a commission or regulatory agency to ensure the investors do not exploit the populace and also ensure they pay taxes to govt.

omenka:
Easier said than done. I have very little faith in solar power.

Nna ke ije..



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A good number of his posts have been gracing the nairaland frontpage.


I"ll be grateful for your favorable reply on this sir. Thanks a lot.

mapet:
1. Unfortunately, people like you are as ignorant as they come. First off, even if we're to edge our bets, GEJ gave no alternative. What did GEJ do in the South?
2. Secondly, the south has articulated her requirement in a more intelligent manner. We look at the big picture. We simply to wait for singular projects. We follow a developmental plan which we are currently working with the FG. For example we are beneficiaries of the recently signed two rail projects (LAG-Kano, Lag-Calabar).
3. We don't just wake up and start crying for projects. We plan. We make our environment relative more peaceful and accommodating, we make friends with regions in exchange for mutual benefits. Lagos State for example has bought vast lands in the north for agri-Investments. Lagos State government recently signed a business deal with Kebbi state to be joint largest producers of Rice, matching and exceeding the volume we import annually.

But most importantly, the yorubas believe in unity. We want a united and equitably developed Nigeria. We support the development of the north, so that we can have mutual benefits. Unfortunately that is what you hate filled lot don't get

You are the type of people we need in this forum.

Another proud member of The National Association of confused Pessimists A. k. A... Wailers .
Wail on... We are enjoying your wailing skills

hucienda:
Another round of

To ...

To Be ...

Will Soon ...

etc.

2017 go turn 2019 dat one sef go turn 2022 n so on.

Your brothers blowing up the gas facilities can answer your question better. Or did you Buhari divert it to power his farm? The way you guys reason is amazingly wonderful.

Godjone:
APC

You people will never seize to amaze us.

Now, what happened to the over 5000mw GEJ handed to Buhari