Sahara Group’s Afam 2 Power Plant Adds 160MW To National Grid

Sahara Group’s Afam 2 Power Plant successful Rivers State has ramped up procreation to 160MW, boosting powerfulness proviso to Nigeria’s nationalist grid and advancing the nation’s vigor reliability agenda.

Commissioned by President  Bola Ahmed Tinubu connected June 5, 2025, the 180MW Afam 2 Power Plant has emerged arsenic a captious contributor to the nation’s vigor sector.

The plant’s show reflects Sahara Group’s committedness to bringing vigor to beingness responsibly, ensuring reliable powerfulness for homes, communities, and businesses nationwide.

The radical managing director, Sahara Power Group, Dr. Kola Adesina, described the milestone arsenic an attestation to Sahara’s top-notch quality superior and unwavering imaginativeness of lighting up Africa. “It is noteworthy that this accomplishment was recorded with zero downtime incidents, reflecting the expertise and method excellence of the squad connected ground. We are arrogant of the squad and our corporate achievement,” helium said.

A subsidiary of Sahara Group, a planetary vigor and infrastructure conglomerate, Sahara Power Group is simply a foremost backstage powerfulness concern successful Africa, with affiliates including Egbin Power Plc, largest privately tally thermal works successful sub-Saharan Africa, Ikeja Electric Plc, biggest powerfulness organisation institution successful Nigeria and First Independent Power Limited, a starring procreation institution successful Nigeria

Adesina said the ramp-up to 160MW astatine Afam 2 was made imaginable by caller improvements successful state proviso and ongoing infrastructure upgrades, enabling the works to optimise its output successful enactment with nationalist demand.

He noted that the works plays a pivotal relation successful Sahara Group’s broader strategy of delivering cleaner, much reliable vigor solutions to enactment socio-economic growth.

Explaining that the accomplishment underscores Sahara Group’s alignment with the national government’s vigor modulation and infrastructure improvement goals, Adesina added, “Sahara Group is grateful for the collaboration and enactment from regulators, stakeholders, and big communities successful our bid to to thrust inclusive vigor entree crossed Nigeria.”