Enugu targets 660MW coal-fired power plant, sets July groundbreaking date

Enugu State Government has unveiled plans to physique a 660MW coal-fired powerfulness works successful the state, starting from July this year, arsenic portion of Governor Peter Mbah’s administration’s strategy to actualise its imaginativeness to turn the state’s system from $4.4bn to $30bn.

This was adjacent arsenic the Organised Private Sector Nigeria (OPSN), an umbrella assemblage for Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA); Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN); Nigerian Association of Small-Scale Industrialists (NASSI); Nigerian Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (NASME), and the Enugu Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ECCIMA) endorsed the politician for a 2nd word successful office.

They said helium had made them arrogant arsenic a backstage assemblage subordinate himself by his outstanding enactment that had “strengthened assurance successful Enugu arsenic an emerging destination for investment, commerce, endeavor development, and living.”

Governor Mbah spoke during a solidarity sojourn by OPSN, Enugu State, to him astatine Government House, Enugu, connected Wednesday.

Mbah recalled that Enugu State, nether his leadership, was the archetypal subnational to acceptable up an energy marketplace pursuing the Constitution and Electricity Act amendments that efficaciously transferred powerfulness from the Exclusive List to the Concurrent List, frankincense paving the mode for states to enactment successful each the powerfulness worth chain, namely generation, transmission, and ...