This was disclosed in a statement by the Minister of Power, Engineer Sale Mamman, on Friday.
What Sale Mamman said about Zungeru Hydroelectric Power Project
“I am excited to announce that we will be injecting about 700MW of electricity into the national grid by December 2021 from the Zungeru Plant barring any unforeseen developments.
Unfortunately, we were unable to deliver this project in December 2020 as planned due to the global pandemic which meant workers on site had to be away for the better part of last year.
President Muhammadu Buhari is committed to completing all inherited and initiated projects.”
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The Minister of Power, Engineer Sale Mamman, has said the 10 megawatts (MW) Katsina Wind Farm is set for commissioning later this month. This is coming nearly 13 years after the project worth about N5 billion was initiated, first as a state project and shortly became a federal project at Lambar Rimi area of Katsina […]
In a social media post on Thursday, Engr. Mamman said: “The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is committed to the completion of abandoned infrastructure projects.
“The 10MW Katsina Wind Farm Project set for commissioning later this month has 37 up and functioning turbines, part of our efforts towards investing in renewable energy,” the minister stated.
According to further descriptions of the farm in the post, the project consist of the Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) and installation contract of 37 units of GEVMP with 275 (kilowatts) power capacity of wind turbine generators.
It has step-up transformers for each turbine with a capacity of 315KVA for 33 kilovolts (kV) and 400 volts (V) at distributed power supply level.
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