The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said that the completion of the Gurara Hydro Power Plant in Kaduna State would generate an additional 30 megawatts of electricity, The Punch reports.
Fashola spoke on Friday in Kaduna when he visited the Gurara Dam project to assess the level of work. Fashola said the current administration was determined to increase the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in the country using an energy mix.
He said; “But you see that your country is developing wind power in Katsina, it is developing hydro power here in Kaduna. It is developing hydro power in Kasibila, we have been to Jebba, we have been to Kainji, Shiroro, slowly the energy mix is coming together.”
He said that government would soon complete and begin the evacuation of electricity from the plant, adding that approval has been granted by the Federal Executive Council to complete the Gurara- Kudanda substation. He expressed the hope that the project would be completed early next year.
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