‘Dadin Kowa power plant ready October’

The Dadin Kowa Dam 40MW hydroelectric power plant will commence power supply by October, the firm handling the project, Mabon Nigeria Limited has said.

The project coordinator, Mr Cyril Christopher, disclosed this at the project site yesterday when the acting Director-General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) Engineer Chidi Azuwah led management of the commission on a monitoring visit.

Mr Christopher said civil works had reached 85 per cent completionadding that the company would accelerate work to make it ready for commissioning by October.

Earlier, Engineer Izuwah said water release from Dadin Kowa would also make sustainable power generation at Kiri Dam possible, adding that the project was a pathfinder and of double benefit to the North East geo-political zone.