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From Uche Usim, Abuja
Barring unforeseen circumstances, the 188-megawatt Geometric Power plant in the Osisioma Industrial Layout in Aba, Abia State, will start to generate electricity within two months (August).
This was revealed by the Geometric Power Group Chairman and former power minister, Professor Bart Nnaji in a statement on Wednesday.
According to him, the power generation project starts with one of its four General Electric brand turbines.
“The second will come on stream once the performance of the first turbine is declared satisfactory by the team of engineers led by KSE Energy of Turkey and Ben Caven, a former executive director of the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) reputed to be the only person to have run the generation, engineering and transmission divisions of the state-owned utility.
“The generation of electricity from the Geometric Power plant will be a game changer in the socio-economic development of not just Aba city but nine out of the 17 local government areas in Abia State serviced by Aba Power, a member of Geometric group”, Nnaji declared.
He added: “We have completed building four brand new power substations and refurbishing three substations inherited from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), in addition to providing thousands of kilometres of cables and wires, as well as world-class tubular poles available in only highly industrialised cities such as Tokyo in Japan and San Francisco in California.
“All that remains now is to provide fuel or gas to the Geometric Power plant through the 27-kilometre gas pipeline from Owaza in Ukwa West LGA in Abia State to the Osisioma Industrial Layout on the Aba outskirts.
“Oilserv, Nigeria’s foremost indigenous gas pipeline builder, is doing a good job”.
Professor Nnaji further disclosed that though work has been completed on the seven sub-stations, thousands of kilometers of wires as well as tubular poles, the power infrastructure will be put in use only when the Geometric Power plant becomes operational.
The plant commissioning, he added, would bring about a dramatic improvement in not power supply but also its quality.
The Aba Integrated Power Project, he continued, “is the only electricity company in Nigeria that generates and also distributes power”.
