Company plans to add 30MW to national grid by 2015




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Company plans to add 30MW to national grid by 2015





(ABUJA)


The Managing Director, William Duncan Hydro Power Ltd., Mr William Duncan, on Wednesday said that 30 megawatts of electricity would be generated and added to the national grid by 2015.


Duncan made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.


He said that the megawatts would be generated from Kwall River in Bassa Local Government Area in Plateau.


William Duncan Hydro-Electric Power Ltd., is one of the three companies recently given water use permits by the Federal Ministry of Water Resources to generate power for the benefits of Nigerians.


The others were Zuma Energy Nigeria Ltd for Coal fired power plant from River Niger and Hydro Belt Flow Ltd for hydroelectric power generation from Mada River and Katsina-Ala River.


The managing director said the power generation was part of their contribution to actualise the Federal Government’s transformation agenda.


“It is one of the pillars of the present administration’s transformation agenda and this is our own quota toward ensuring that the whole country is wired and has electricity for industrial development.


According to him, the 30 megawatts will specifically be generated from the Kwall River and there are about 28 more rivers with hydro power potential in the country.


He told NAN that Kwall was just one of such rivers out of the 28.


Duncan said that if adequate resources were provided, more rivers would be harnessed and developed to boost the country’s electricity supply.


“This is specifically for this river where you have the Kwall falls in Plateau State and that is the endowment of the state.


“We have many other rivers that have hydropower potential; so, the issue is just to keep developing them.


“We have 28 of them, this is one out of 28 as long as there are resources other ones can also be developed,” he said.


Duncan said that the project was a public- private partnership programme involving the federal and state governments as well as corporate bodies and development partners.


(NAN)


 







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