Egbin Thermal Power Station

Egbin Thermal Power Plant,Egbin
Location of the Egbin Thermal Power Plant, Egbin in Nigeria
Country	Nigeria
Location	Egbin
Coordinates	6°33′48″N 3°36′55″E / 6.56333°N 3.61528°E / 6.56333; 3.61528Coordinates: 6°33′48″N 3°36′55″E / 6.56333°N 3.61528°E / 6.56333; 3.61528
Status	Operational
Commission date	Unit 1: May,1986 Unit 2: November,1985 Unit 3: May,1985 Unit 4:November,1986 Unit 5: May,1987 Unit 6: November,1987
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Gas
Secondary fuel	Oil
Power generation
Units operational	6 x 220 MW
Make and model	Hitachi
Nameplate capacity	1320
Egbin Thermal Power Plant, Egbin is the largest power plant in Nigeria.

Egbin Power Plc is the largest power generating station in Nigeria with an installed capacity of 1320 MW consisting of 6 Units of 220MW each. The station is located at Egbin, in Egbin

Town,[1] about 40 km North East of the city of Lagos in Ikorodu Local Government Area, it is situated on a low land in Egbin
and bounded by the Lagoon to the South, Agura/Gberigbe to the North and situated in Ijede Local Council Development Area.

The spot "Egbin "people are farmers and fisher man but Government acquired most of the land to give way for the project with its housing estate and the people met at Ipakan(are fisher man hamlet house) are tenant of Egbin there were resettled at Egbin Land leased from Egbin

People, the largest portion of the land was collected from Egbin
Town. The first unit of the plant was commissioned in July 1985,while the last was commissioned in September 1986.The station is of reheat type with high intermediate low pressure impulse reaction turbine design and a hydrogen cooled generator.[2]

History

Construction work started in 1982^[3] by Marubeni Consortium which used Hitachi Company of Japan for the Electric/Mechanical and Bouygues of France for Civil works . The first unit (Unit 3) was completed and commissioned on the 13th May, 1985 and the rest five (5) units were commissioned at six monthly intervals .Upon completion of the ramp-structured edifice, the commissioning was carried out under the auspice of the then Head of States and commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.

The Egbin Thermal Power Plant is a gas-fired plant with six 220MW independent boiler turbine units. It can also run on High Pour Fuel Oil, commonly called HPFO.^[4]

Connections to Power Grid

Power generated is sent to the National grid by three main transmission lines namely: Ikeja West (330KV) line; Aja (330KV) line and Ikorodu (132KV) lines.

Key Events

Privatisation

After series of negotiation and payment of $407.3 million,^[5] The Federal Government of Nigeria handed over Egbin Thermal Power Plant to the core investor, a joint venture between Sahara Power Group and KEPCO, on 1 November 2013.^[6] The first attempt to privatising Egbin Power plant was in May 2007 when KEPCO Energy Resources offered to pay $280 million to acquire 51 per cent shares of the company. As a confirmation of their interest KEPCO paid $28 million, being the initial payment of 10 per cent of the bid price.

As a result of unresolved issues, such as power purchase and gas supply agreement, the process was halted.

In 2013, as a continuity of the 2007 agreement between the FGN and KEPCO, the South Korean power company, was granted approval to acquire additional 19 per cent of the plant at a new evaluation cost. National Council on Privatisation (NCP) approved the transaction while the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) handled the sale process. BPE set a deadline for the payment of $407.3 million (about N63.95 billion), which was the new price at which 70% of the plant was valued.^[7]

Rehabilitation of Unit

The rehabilitation of Unit Six (ST-06) in Egbin, Which suffered a boiler tube explosion in 2006, began in November, 2014 and was completed in January, 2015.^[8] This rehabilitation restored the plant back to its full capacity of 1320MW and was carried out by Hitachi.

Korea Electrical Power Nigeria Limited currently serves as a technical partner to Sahara Power Group, with goal of overhauling all the units in the plant, while achieving 85 per cent power availability and 34 per cent efficiency.^[9]

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