Jigawa Solar Power Plant to Generate 80 Megawatts
Novia Scotia Power Development Limited, a Norwegian company, on Monday, 10th October, 2016, said the proposed solar power plant in Dutse, Jigawa, would generate 80 megawatts of electricity when completed.
The Managing Director of the company, Mr Amit Modi, while speaking with newsmen shortly after paying a courtesy call on the State Governor, Alhaji Muhammad Badaru in Dutse, disclosed this. He said that the project would be completed and handed over in 2018.
Modi said that the 150 million dollars project would be transmitted to the national grid when completed.
According to him, the company had already signed an agreement with the Federal Government to purchase the power and sell to distribution companies.
He promised the host community that the company would provide employment for the youths in the community, when the project is completed and commenced operation.
Modi said the company had already started paying compensation to owners of the land acquired for siting project.
Earlier, Gov. Badaru said that the project would attract a lot of investments to the state.
Badaru said that no industry could function without stable power supply; hence, the project would facilitate his effort to key in the state among industrialised states in the federation.
He appealed to the company to honour its agreement and ensure that the project was completed at the agreed time in 2018.