President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has performed the groundbreaking of the 350MW first phase of NNPCLimited‘s 1350MW Gwagwalada Independent Power Project (GIPP) whilst reaffirming his administration’s commitment to strengthening Nigeria’s energy sector.
This is in line with President Tinubu’s campaign promise to increase power generation beyond the current 12,000MW, address power value chain challenges, and remove all distribution bottlenecks.
The GIPP project is led by NNPC Ltd. in a joint venture with China Machinery and Engineering Corporation (CMEC) for the EPC, and General Electric (GE) for the Long Term Service Agreement, and is designed to provide reliable electricity, strengthen Nigeria’s energy sector, and accelerate economic growth.
However, the GIPP project will sit on an already acquired 54.7hectares of land in Gwagwalada, Abuja, and is one of the critical power generation projects along the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline corridor which is at 70% completion. AKK is Nigeria’s largest, ongoing domestic gas pipeline project till date.
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