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Bayelsa State governor, Senator Douye Diri, has stated that the powerfulness generated and distributed from the state’s autarkic powerfulness works volition not beryllium escaped and that the radical of the State volition wage for the service.
Governor Diri made the clarification connected Wednesday erstwhile helium visited the task tract to inspect six retired of the 8 caller 60MW state turbines procured by the authorities authorities astatine Elebele successful Ogbia section authorities country of the state.
The powerfulness instrumentality and its accessories arrived successful the authorities astir a week ago.
In a connection by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Alabrah, Governor Diri stated that radical of the authorities were upbeat astir the imaginable of 24-hour powerfulness proviso by the extremity of this year.
Diri explained that powerfulness depletion would beryllium metered and paid for arsenic the authorities had already signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Jampur Group for establishing a customised metering accumulation works successful the state.
“I had fixed the extremity of this twelvemonth arsenic a deadline for this task and we are sticking to that. Hopefully earlier Christmas, we volition person these turbines fired up and by God’s grace, Bayelsa volition statesman to person 24 hours uninterrupted powerfulness supply.
“We are really expecting 8 state turbines but six person arrived and I person been assured that the remaining 2 with immoderate accessories volition beryllium present adjacent week. These are the astir modern state turbines.
“Initially, we planned to person 2 precise ample plants but later, the experts advised that determination could beryllium blackout if 1 of them breaks down. So I had to o.k. the eight.
“As you know, to support these instrumentality and the state to occurrence them, adjacent though it is connected our soil, we volition walk wealth to procure it from the company. So it is not free. For determination to beryllium changeless energy everybody indispensable wage for it. It is wage arsenic you consume,” the politician explained.
The Commissioner for Power, Mr. Kharin Komuko, described the task arsenic a imagination travel true.
He said erstwhile the politician archetypal spoke astir the powerfulness project, determination was unfastened cynicism by critics of the government.
Komuko thanked Governor Diri for making bully his promise.
Also, the Managing Director of the Bayelsa State Electricity Company, Engr. Olice Kemenanabo, who explained the relation of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) successful the state’s IPP project, said the Electricity Act had grey areas that were interwoven to guarantee that each bequest organisation companies were carried along.
Kemenanabo said the authorities and PHEDC were moving unneurotic to debar immoderate ineligible tussle betwixt the franchise owners and the organisation network.
He further stated that the PHEDC’s existing network, which has implicit 4 100 transformers successful the state, would beryllium utilised for powerfulness distribution.
Speaking connected behalf of the Jampur Group, method partners to the authorities energy company, the Project Manager, Mr. Sharif Abu, described the state turbine task arsenic precise important and sensitive, noting that the precise clip docket for completion would beryllium met.
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