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Geometric Power to Begin Energy Generation by August

Adaobi Rhema Oguejiofor 

The Group Chairman of Geometric Power, Professor Bart Nnaji, has disclosed that the 188-megawatt (MW) Geometric Power plant in the Osisioma Industrial Layout in Aba, Abia State, will begin to generate electricity by August. 

This was revealed on Wednesday in a statement, where he said that the power generation project will start with one of its four General Electric brand turbines.

In his own words, “the second will come on stream once the performance of the first turbine is declared satisfactory by the team of engineers led by KSE Energy of Turkey and Ben Caven, a Former Executive Director of the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) that is reputed to be the only person to have run the generation, engineering, and transmission divisions of the state-owned utility.

“The generation of electricity from the Geometric Power plant will be a game changer in the socio-economic development of not just Aba city but nine out of the 17 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Abia State serviced by Aba Power, a member of the Geometric group.” 

He added that the Company has completed building four brand new power substations and refurbishing three substations inherited from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), in addition to providing thousands of kilometers of cables and wires, as well as world-class tubular poles available in only highly industrialized cities like Tokyo in Japan and San Francisco in California, USA. 

“All that remains now is to provide fuel or gas to the Geometric Power plant through the 27-kilometer gas pipeline from Owaza in Ukwa West LGA in Abia State to the Osisioma Industrial Layout on the Aba outskirts. Oilserv, Nigeria’s foremost indigenous gas pipeline builder, is doing a good job,” Prof. Nnaji expressed. 

The Chairman further disclosed that, although work has been completed on the seven sub-stations, the power infrastructure will be put into use only when the Geometric Power plant becomes operational, adding that the plant commissioning would bring about a dramatic improvement to not only power supply but also its quality.

He concluded that the Aba Integrated Power Project “is the only electricity Company in Nigeria that generates and also distributes power.”

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