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Nigeria: Nigeria: U.S.$26 Billion Required for Power Integration in West Africa

2012/11/02

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Nigeria: U.S.$26 Billion Required for Power Integration in West Africa

A total of $26 billion is required for the realisation of the integration of power in the West African sub-region under the West African Power Pool (WAPP), the Secretary General of WAPP, Mr. Amodou Diallo, disclosed yesterday.The fund is needed to interconnect amount ECOWAS member states and to generate the needed power for the region, Diallo who was speaking at the opening of a weeklong power assembly in Abuja stated.

He disclosed that so far WAPP has been able to mobilise $4 billion for transmission and noted mobilising the rest was of the major challenges facing the initiative even as he said that there would be a conference with donor partners on Thursday this week to discuss ways of mobilising the needed funds.He as well disclosed that Nigeria, under the programme, currently exchanges power with nations such as Togo, Benin, Ghana, Cote d' Voir and Niger with plans to later extend to Mali, Senegal, Liberia and Guinea.

Asked why Nigeria which is highly deficient in electricity supply would be giving from the little power it generates to other nations, Diallo said: "By saying that Nigeria is giving power to those who have better than them, I think you have to soften it because it is not really the truth, you cannot give power to a country who have additional than you have.

"Nigeria is exchanging power with other nations such as Togo, Benin, Ghana Cote de Voir and Niger and very soon to Mali, Senegal and other counties like Liberia and Guinea. The interconnectivity system we are putting in place is to put amount ECOWAS member states together through electrical Network," he said.

He informed that so far Nigeria , Benin, Togo, Ghana ,Burkina Faso, Cote d' Voir , Niger, Mali, Senegal, Mauritania have been interconnected, adding that the implementation of interconnection between Cote de Voir , Liberia, Senegal, Nigeria in 225 KV transmission lines with 12 Sub Stations will soon commence.Speaking on the on-going projects, Diallo said WAPP is currently working on the rehabilitation of kainji and Jebba power plants in Nigeria.

"We are working as well to increase the interconnection between Nigeria and Niger, and to double the Transmission line between Nigeria to Benin. Amount these projects are aimed at putting everybody together so that wherever you have excess power anyone who needs it can buy it and pass it through the transmission system," he said.

On his part, the Chief Executive Officer of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, Olushola Akinneranye, stressed that it was not possible for Nigeria to give out additional power than we have, adding that "In Europe they have interconnecting lines and if a particular country has additional power than they require, they can give to other nations, that is the ultimate aim of WAPP. At the end of the exercise, the power plant built by WAPP in other nations would as well supply us power when we need it."

He said the achievement recorded under the WAPP has succeeded through the support of donor agencies like the World Bank and French Agency. He however, noted that the major challenge facing the programme is funding and the tariff structure which is considered too high in some nations but too low compared with the cost of producing power.

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