Two Power Plants

Jimoh Ibrahim (), Christoph Loch () and Kishore Sengupta ()
Additional contact information
Jimoh Ibrahim: University of Cambridge
Kishore Sengupta: University of Cambridge

Chapter 8 in How Megaprojects Are Damaging Nigeria and How to Fix It, 2022, pp 151-160 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This first project, the Egbin Power Plant, was initiated under a civilian government and delayed because of two coups. But then the military government supported the project (which had a strong value proposition) and saw it through. The second project, the Calabar Power Plant, was a part of a large highly ambitious scheme to build 11 power plants, which ran out of money as well as neglecting critical components of the network surrounding a plant (gas supplies and power distribution lines). So, the power plant hardware itself was completed after a delay, but the plant still delivers little power because gas supplies are too expensive and power delivery is subject to capacity limits and price controls that make operation of the plant unaffordable.

Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-96474-0_8

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030964740

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-96474-0_8

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().