http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigeria-s-first-10mw-katsina-windfarm-nears-completion/209113/

Nigeria’s first ever wind farm, the 10 megawatts (MW) Katsina windfarm is a couple of fractions of work from being completed and commissioned, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Power, Godknows Igali has said.

Igali said in a statement that the 10MW Katsina wind farm has achieved about 98 per cent completion with its 37 turbines currently being test-run and five already successfully test-run.

He also said the transmission line for the evacuation of the electricity that would be generated from the farm has ready been completed through the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), adding that TCN has confirmed this development.

Although, the timeline for completion of the windfarm has consistently shifted from 2012, the windfarm situated in a small village of ,Rimi, which is 25 kilometres (km) south of Katsina City is part of Nigeria’s attempt at tapping into her alternative natural sources of electricity generation.

The project was first envisioned by the Katsina State government but it gained full support from the federal government, through the ministry of power in its quest to diversify Nigeria's energy mix, boost electricity generation and have constant power supply.

Contract for the project which is also funded by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and will exploit the vast wind resources in the north of Nigeria was awarded to French company Vergnet S.A, a certified wind turbine manufacturer, while Nigerian company, O.T. Otis Engineering and German firm, Terrawatt were jointly hired as consultant to supervise the project.

At 55 metres, the average annual mean monthly wind speed for Katsina has been calculated as 6.044 m/s and it is through this that the farm is expected to generate electricity with its 37 wind turbines which have rated power of 275 kW each.

Igali however disclosed that the government is committed to ensuring smooth running of this pilot scheme and it plans to replicate it in the entire northern region of the country where wind velocity is high.

He however stressed that harnessing of wind resource is an integral part of the newly approved national policy on sustainable energy and energy efficiency, adding that the delay experienced in the completion of the Katsina windfarm was occasioned by the ugly incident of kidnapping of a French national who was in-charge of the project and the need to subsequently engage another French company to complete the project.

He explained that the wind-farm was only one component of the renewable energy programme of the federal government and will get further boost with the approval by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) of the policy on renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Okay....that's good news

That's good news......

If I were buhari the first thing I would do is to ensure the completion of the trans Sahara gas pipeline on the Nigerian end... get new investors(gencos) to build double cycle gas generating plants in the north for power generation for northern states.

This centralized grid system is hurting electricity cos all the electricity produced in Nigeria is first sent to oshogbo before its then distributed to all states leading to huge transmission losses.

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Wooow.. is dis really Nigeria

signs of Good things to come

Goodluck Nigeria, other politicians would have been gathering now but Gej never gave up on ongoing projects......
continue the good work sir.

dmostcheerful:
Goodluck Nigeria, other politicians would have been gathering now but Gej never gave up on ongoing projects......
continue the good work sir.

unfortunately dmostcheerful, he can't continue.

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Some people go still dey say Oga Jona did nothing