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LAFARGE Africa Plc has said its newly constructed 220 megawatts power plant at Ewekoro in Ogun State will commence operation in October. Guillaume Roux, chief executive officer, CEO, Lafarge Nigeria, said the project worth $400 million (N78.8 billion) was executed in partnership with the International Finance Corporation, IFC, and Wartsila.
The IFC will provide financial and advisory services for the project through InfraVentures, its Global Infrastructure Project Development Fund, while Wartsila will build and manage the power plant. Roux expressed the hope that the project would enhance electricity supply to 1.4 million households and help mitigate energy problems of many firms in the country.
He said the power project remained one of the company’s contributions toward providing an enabling environment for new investments and the nation’s economic growth. It was learnt that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, had licensed embedded power companies to boost electricity supply in the country.
Embedded power companies are not primarily power generating companies, but they generate extra power from their operations and sell the surplus to the national grid or the distribution companies. Africa and the Middle East contribute 18 per cent to the company’s turnover in 2014. Nigeria represents about three-and-half per cent of the company’s turnover from Africa in 2014.
— Aug 3, 2015 @ 01:00 GMT
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Tags: Africa electricity supply Global Infrastructure Project Development Fund Guillaume Roux IFC InfraVentures International Finance Corporation Lafarge Africa Plc Lafarge Nigeria Middle East NERC Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission power plant Wartsila
