Nigeria’s power supply may leap over 3,000 megawatts (MW) to over 4,000 MW as Siemens Nigeria has concluded plans to add 3 Gigawatts, GW, of electricity to the national grid by 2020. This even as the Chief Executive officer, Siemens Nigeria, Mr. Onyeche Tifase stated that, end-to-end electrification can push the nation to a top-20 economy by 2030.

According to him, “70 million Nigerians will move above the poverty line by 2030. To realise this, Nigeria must invest in power generation, transmission, distribution and the efficient application of electrical energy via automation. “To make electricity more easily accessible to the whole population, power generation capacity must be ramped up and streamlined.” The Azura Edo Independent Power Project (IPP) helps to meet both of these criteria. This open cycle gas turbine will generate an additional 459 MW to the national grid when it comes online in 2018.