The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, is planning to build power plants with combined capacity of 4600 megawatts in Abuja, Kaduna and Kano States.
Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru, disclosed this during a courtesy call by the Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, Tuesday in Abuja.
The planned plants folows the recently approved contract for the construction of Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipeline project, dubbed AKK Pipeline.
Baru said the Corporation in partnership with private investors would build the power generating plants to support the Federal Government’s effort to provide stable electricity in the country.
“As part of the drive to establish power plants to augment the power supply to the nation, the Federal Executive Council has recently approved the AKK Gas Pipeline project to be financed through Public Private Partnership (PPP).
The project comes with other auxiliary ones which include, 1350megawatts, 900megawatts and 2350megawatts of power generation plants in Abuja, Kaduna and Kano respectively,” Baru stated.
