The Nation Newspaper Ekiti independent power project begins operation
Ekiti State Government has begun the test run of Independent Power Project as part of efforts to boost electricity supply.In a chat with our reporter in Ado-Ekiti, Commissioner for Infrastructure, Prof. Bolaji Aluko, said the project had been tested successfully for two weeks with 700kw distributed so far out of the 3.5megawatts.
The Technical Director, Ekiti IPP Limited, Mrs. Odunayo Lanre-Bamodu, an engineer; said the project was fully in operation and it had been working perfectly for about two weeks, noting that government facilities across Ado-Ekiti were benefiting from the electricity source.She said the project is a metropolitan power source with 11 kilometres underground distribution network as well as several substations and Ring Main Units , two generating sets of 1.5MW and 1.25MW, totalling 2.
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