The Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has announced that his government is fine-tuning arrangements to evacuate power from Tiga and Challawa Independent Power Projects (IPP) for distribution to the public, ThisDay reports.
He stated this during a meeting with the President of Skipper Group, Mr. Jitender Kumar Sachdeva in his office in Gurgaon, India and added that the government would procure distributor transformers for rural electrification and augmentation/distribution networks. He said; “all future transformer requirements shall be done from Skipper after seeking necessary clarifications from Kano Electricity Distribution Company.”
Ganduje also expressed interest in setting up of a 100MW Green Economic Zone, an eco-friendly initiative based upon the hybrid model of sourcing power as well as a proposal for a 150 KW community solar system, by the company, in Kano. A subsidiary of the Skipper Group, SkipperSeil Nigeria Ltd. is currently executing the multi billion Naira Tiga and Challawa dams Independent Power Projects, in Kano.
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