- Lafarge Africa said on Friday it had applied to Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission to generate 260 megawatts of electricity to supply to the country’s grid.
- The application falls under the embedded energy plans of the commission. Embedded energy is basically extra energy generated by Independent Power Producers who generate power for themselves but have excess they can sell to the market.
- Lafarge Africa, Finland’s Wartsila and the World Bank’s IFC agreed in September to build a 220 megawatt gas-fired power plant in the country to boost electricity supplies, at a cost of $400 million.
- Nigeria is also in talks with Russia’s state-owned Rosatom to build nuclear power plants.
- Source: Reuters