GBARAIN POWER PLANT: REPS URGE VP SHETTIMA TO SUMMON EMERGENCY MEETING OF NDPHC BOARD
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The Niger Delta Power Holding Company’s board has been summoned to an emergency meeting by the House of Representatives in order to urgently revive the Gbarain Power Plant and improve the effectiveness of the country’s electrical system. Vice President Kashim Shettima has been asked to do this.
The Vice President is the Chairman of the NDPHC board.
Additionally, the house called Joseph Ugbo, the Managing Director of NDPHC, to testify before its power committee regarding the status of the power plant.
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Built to accommodate a future conversion to a combined cycle gas turbine configuration, the Gbarain Power Plant is an open cycle gas turbine power plant. Situated in the capital of Bayelsa State, Koroama, Yenagoa, is an operational power plant with a minimum capacity of 252 megawatts.
The resolution was passed by the house on Thursday after Mr. Oboku Oforji, the member representing the Yenagoa/Opokuma Federal Constituency in Bayelsa State, presented a motion on an urgent matter of public interest.
Leading the debate on the motion, the Peoples Democratic Party lawmaker noted that on November 30, 2020, the NDPHC lost the Power Control Module of the power plant to a fire incident.
Oforji said, “The Bayelsa State Government offered to take some responsibilities of the NDPHC, since it was the most affected, particularly as the state-owned Niger Delta University derives its electricity supply from the station.”
He continued, “The State Government undertook the rehabilitation and restoration of power supply through the 60MVA,132/33KV power transformer which is currently supplying the Gbarain power station auxiliaries and the host communities through the 2×15 MVA33/11KV injection substation which was not functioning before the intervention.”
The lawmaker further noted that cognizant that the Gbarain Power station has a proximity of only 700m to the Gbarain Ubie multi-million dollar central gas processing facility that transports over one billion, standard cubic feet of gas to the NLNG in Bonny, the gas supply is not a constraint.
“One is prompted to doubt the competence of NDPHC to manage this power plant which has the potential to be the largest power station in the nation because of its comparative advantage over other power plants in its proximity to gas,” Oforji stated.
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