The Home of Representatives has urged Vice President Kashim Shettima to summon an emergency assembly of the Niger Delta Energy Holding Firm (NDPHC) Board for the pressing revival of the Gbarain Energy Plant to spice up the effectivity of the nationwide grid.
Aside from Shettima who’s the Chairman of the NDPHC Board, the Home additionally summoned the Managing Director of the corporate, Joseph Ugbo to look earlier than its Committee on Energy to elucidate the state of the Gbarain Energy Plant.
Gbarain Energy Plant, an open cycle gasoline turbine energy plant constructed to accommodate future conversion to mixed cycle gasoline turbine configuration, is an working energy station of at the least 252 megawatts situated in Koroama, Yenagoa in Bayelsa State.
These resolutions adopted the adoption of a movement of pressing public significance moved by the member representing Yenagoa/Opokuma Federal Constituency, Bayelsa State, Hon. Oboku Oforji at plenary.
Presenting movement, Oforji acknowledged that on November 30, 2020, the NDPHC misplaced the Energy Management Module of the facility plant to a fireplace incident.
In accordance with him: “The Bayelsa State Authorities supplied to take some obligations of the NDPHC, because it was probably the most affected, notably because the state-owned Niger Delta College derives its electrical energy provide from the station.
“The State Authorities undertook the rehabilitation and restoration of energy provide by way of the 60MVA,132/33KV energy transformer which is at the moment supplying the Gbarain Energy Station auxiliaries and the host communities by way of the two×15 MVA33/11KV injection substation which was not functioning earlier than the intervention.”
Oforji expressed fear that three years after, the NDPHC has not been in a position to reside as much as their duty by changing the Energy Management Module which allegedly had been mendacity redundant in one among its uncompleted stations.
The lawmaker mentioned the Gbarain Energy Station has a proximity of solely 700m to the Gbarain-Ubie multi-million {dollars} central gasoline processing facility that transports over one billion, customary cubic ft of gasoline to the NLNG in Bonny, saying gasoline provide will not be a constraint.
“One is prompted to doubt the competence of NDPHC to handle this energy plant which has the potential to be the most important energy station within the nation due to its comparative benefit over different energy crops in its proximity to gasoline. Reaching its potentials, Gbarain Energy Station can conveniently energy the entire Niger Delta area and past.
“Saddened that quite than resuscitate the facility plant which was constructed with $400m and valued as of right now at over $800m, the administration of the NDPHC is proposing to designate the 252MW Open Cycle Energy station as a building web site, thereby abandoning its main duty of working it to the advantage of the state, the Niger Delta and the nation at giant,” he mentioned.
Oforji acknowledged that the Shell Petroleum Improvement Firm has over 60MMsc of gasoline allotted to the plant which isn’t utilised as a result of lack of ability of the corporate to function.
“It’s the intervention of the Bayelsa State Authorities that has stored the tools intact, as a result of they’re purported to be underneath managed temperature; if not, they’d have exploded,” he added.