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GE Gas Power to add nearly 500

MW of power to Nigeria’s grid

NIGERIA GE Gas Power, the American energy company,
is to invest in Nigeria’s energy sector with three
new projects that will add nearly 500 megawatts
(MW) of power to the national electricity grid by
the end of Q2 2023.
According to the CEO of GE Nige-
ria, Mohammed Mijindadi, speaking at
a roundtable session with journalists in
Lagos, 2023 will be a significant year for the
company.
One of the projects is the 240MW Afam III
power plant in Port Harcourt. The company is
also working on two 50MW projects, one in
Maiduguri alongside the Nigerian National
Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), and
another with the Dangote Group to support its
cement and refinery plants. GE Gas Power is a firm that focuses on pro-
“We have three projects in active construc- viding equipment, solutions, and services across
tion that should be done by the second quarter the energy value chain, from generation to
of this year,” Mijindadi said. consumption.™

RENEWABLES

Nairobi-listed Kenya Power to

convert its 2,000 vehicles to electric

over four years

KENYA NAIROBI-LISTED Kenya Power (KPLC) fuel-powered vehicles.
intends to convert its 2,000 petrol- and die- “The company has consistently invested
sel-driven vehicles to electric over the next four heavily towards the expansion of the grid’s
years, its acting managing director announced capacity and its automation to accommodate
on February 7. the exponential growth in demand for electric-
KPLC, the East African country’s sole power ity and to improve the flexibility of the grid and,
distributor, serving more than three-quarters of in turn, the quality of power supply,” he said, as
the population, plans to make the transition by quoted by The Standard.
retrofitting electric engines and buying new elec- Kenya’s generation capacity is estimated at
tric vehicles (EVs), Geoffrey Muli said. 3,321 MW, with a peak demand of 2,132 MW
In 2020, the Kenyan government rolled and off-peak demand of about 1,100 MW,
out a series of policies and incentives aimed according to Kenya Power.
at encouraging the use and production of Renewable energy currently accounts for
EVs. Muli, in a speech at the opening session 73% of installed power generation capacity
of KPLC’s inaugural e-mobility conference in in Kenya, whilst 90% of electricity used in the
Nairobi, assured investors and stakeholders country is generated by green energy sources
in the electric mobility industry that the grid such as geothermal, wind, solar and hydroelec-
network can support the transition from fossil tric, according to Africa Outlook.™

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