Governor Babatunde Fashola who unveiled the academy’s premises located at the State Electricity Board, Works Yard Road, GRA, Ikeja, later inspected the facilities.
After unveiling the academy, the governor said it is a key step that will herald the training of many batches of power engineers and artisans who will provide the necessary human capital for lighting Lagos and Nigeria.
According to him, the Lagos Energy Academy will provide training for young people to become technicians and electrical engineers and provide training in generation, transmission and distribution.
Fashola explained that inside the academy, there are modules on the sub-station that people see outside which has been simulated as well as transformers and all sorts of learning equipment and tools.
“We believe that over the years, there is a possibility to produce as many as 200,000 graduates who would have Siemens certification to enable them work anywhere. We are also partnering with a meter manufacturing company that is training them on how to diagnose faults with meters, the old analogue meters, the digital meters, the card meters, so that they are able to render service in terms of power generation, transmission and distribution and all of the challenges,” he said.
Speaking on the Mainland Independent Power Project, the governor said it is the sixth IPP that the state is completing and now going through pre-commissioning testing, adding that when it is commissioned, hopefully before the end of this month, it would now power LASUTH, the High Court, the Lagos State Police Command and all of the public institutions around Ikeja.
He explained that what is behind the IPP is the sample of the solar installations that are going to be installed in all the public schools in Lagos State, adding that government already has contracts for 172 of them in partnership with DFID for which it has provided counterpart funding .
