Power: Ag Gov. Aiyedatiwa to take delivery of new gas engines worth N7.8 billion
Barring any last-minute changes, the acting Governor of Ondo State, Hon. Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, will soon formally receive new sets of German-made reciprocating gas engines to augment the power supply in Ondo State.
The Akeredolu-Aiyedatiwa government is hopeful that a successful off-grid or captive power project in the state will free more megawatts of electricity from the national grid for the use of the people and productive clusters across the state.
This is sequel to the perpetual blackout in several parts of Ondo South senatorial district and other locations around the state.
The government was said to have embarked on direct interventions through public-private partnership (PPP) to arrest the drift.
Such interventions have now yielded positive results. Our correspondent in Akure, the Ondo State capital, confirmed the arrival and delivery of the first sets of reciprocating gas engines ordered for the Alagbaka Independent Power Plant (IPP), a critical power intervention project in Akure.
The plant is to be operated by Alagbaka Power Limited, a joint venture between the Ondo State Government and Advad Nigeria Limited.
The new gas engines and associated balance of plant facilities worth over N7.8 billion were seen being offloaded earlier in the week at the power plant located in the serene Alagbaka G.R.A. in the state capital.
A staff of the company who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak asked that we approached the Office of the Honourable Commissioner for Energy, Engr Rasaq Obe, for detailed information.
