Nigerian Firm Commission Power Plant In Sierra Leone

A Nigerian Energy Company has successfully completed and commissioned phase one of a 36-megawatt (MW) Independent Power Plant (IPP) in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

The company Income Electrix Limited, with this feat has showcased Nigeria’s human resource capacity beyond its shores

This first phase has an installed capacity of 10 Megawatts and is the first of the three IPP projects to be built by the company under the country's three years emergency power plan.

According to the company, the diesel-fired plant, located on Black Hall Road, Eastern Freetown was commissioned by the country's President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma recently.

For more than eleven years, residents of East Freetown and businesses have lived without electricity due to lack of power supply.

Commendation

President Koroma lauded the management of Income Electrix, under the leadership of Mr Matthew Edevbie, an engineer, for sharing the vision of his administration for public-private sector.

He  worked  assiduously to  meet the short term/emergency solution to the electricity requirement for the socio-economic recovery of Sierra Leone.

In his words, “this celebration of a transition from years of darkness to light is tagged: "Light don com carnival."

Earlier in her speech, Minister of Energy and Power, Honorable Haja Afsatu Kabba, expressed her satisfaction with the quality of equipment and materials used on the project by Income Electrix.

To her, the ability of the Nigerian company to deliver the IPP within a short period of ten weeks was indeed an indication of the seriousness the company and its team of engineers attached to the project.

For the Managing Director, Income Electrix Limited, Edevbie, “the Sierra Leone IPP project is another crystallisation of his company's vision for a truly pan-African, pan-ECOWAS, African-owned company that delivers life-transforming services, helping in bringing good things to life.”

Edevbie said his company would continue to explore and convert business opportunities across Africa, having made its impact felt in Nigeria already through the execution of several rural electrification projects.

Profile

With staff strength of over 250, Income Electrix Limited is a wholly African owned company based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Southern Nigeria. It was incorporated in 1996.

 

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