President Bola Tinubu on Friday performed the groundbreaking ceremony of the first phase of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) 1350 Megawatt (MW) Gwagwalada independent power plant (GIPP) project in Abuja.
According to the NNPCL, the Gwagwalada Independent Power Plant Project is a 1,350MW combined cycle power plant with auxiliaries and a balance of plant to be situated on 547 hectares of land already acquired at Gwagwalada, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
It said the GIPP was necessitated by the need for delivering gas towards additional power generation capacity in Nigeria.
