Nigerian National Integrated Power Project
The Nigerian National Integrated Power Project was conceived in 2004 when Olusegun Obasanjo was the President of the Federal Government of Nigeria. It was formed to address the issues of insufficient electric power generation and excessive gas flaring from oil exploration in the Niger Delta region. Seven power plants were designed in gas-producing states as part of the project.
Planned power plants included:
- Ihovbor Power Station Benin, Edo State with the capacity of 4 x 112.5 MW.
- Calabar Power Station, Cross River State with the capacity of 5 x 112.5112.5 MW.
- Egbema Power Station, Imo State with the capacity of 3 x 112.5 MW.
- Gbarain Power Station, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State with the capacity of 2 x 112.5 MW.
- Sapele Power Station, Delta State with the capacity of 4 x 112.5 MW.
- Omoku Power Station, Rivers State with the capacity of 2 x 112.5 MW.
- Ikot Abasi Power Station, Akwa Ibom with the capacity of 2 x 112.5 MW .
The plants are low efficiency simple cycle but have provision for future extension to combined cycle.
Administration changes in 2007 interrupted funding for more than two years.
The NIPP project includes 11 power plants and 4 FGN Power Stations:
- Alaoji Power Station, Abia State, combined cycle plant with the capacity of 4 x 112.5 MW and 2x steam 255 MW
- Omotosho II Power Station, Ondo State, with the capacity of 4 x 112.5
- Olorunsogo II Power Station, Ogun State, combined cycle plant with the capacity of 4 x 125 MW and 2 x steam 125 MW
- Geregu II Power Station, Kogi State, with the capacity of 434 MW
The Ikot Abasi NIPP power plant has been replaced by Ibom Power, which is a 190 MW project of the Akwa Ibom State Government.
The revised project involves large scale transmission projects across all of Nigeria which are crucial to ensure power distribution from generation plants to final customers.