This Day
26 April 2011
As President Goodluck Jonathan winds down the present administration, the various ongoing power projects in the country under the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPPs) will deliver only 843 megawatts (mw) of electricity by the end of May 2011, out of the 1,266 megawatts envisaged under the Power Sector Roadmap which he launched on August 26, 2010.
Under the roadmap, 1,266mw was targeted from the NIPPs in the short-term - that is, the period up to May 2011.
Investigations by THISDAY revealed that those who designed the roadmap are not involved in the execution of the power projects and the controversy surrounding the suspension of the NIPPs by late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's administration for over two years had also affected the plans by the present administration to revive the projects.
But the NIPPs will from next month be delivering additional capacities at the end of every quarter, as part of the renewed commitment of Jonathan to revamp the projects.
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