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<p>As $2 million project for 24-hour power in Zawaciki, Kumbotso reaches technical commissioning.</p><div class="XYl4KMJM" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) reveals plans to attain 24-hour electricity supply within its<br />
franchise states of Kano, Katsina and Jigawa as the Company’s new core investors roll-out an ambitious<br />
plan to build up to 200MW of incremental capacity through 100 mini-grids and embedded generation.</p>
<p>This was made known by the Company’s Board Chairman, Engr. Adamu Ibrahim Gumel during a tour to<br />
one of the mini-grids sites at Zawaciki area in Kumbotso LGA in Kano State, recently.</p>
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<p>Engr. Gumel stated that “very soon, you will see these interconnected mini grids popping up everywhere<br />
within our network across Kano, Katsina, and Jigawa States, to augment electricity supply to our valued<br />
customers, while we prioritize bulk grid supply to industrial customers.”<br />
The KEDCO Chairman, also added “we are equally looking at some of our key industrial clusters such as<br />
Tokarawa and Sharada for 24-hour supply through embedded generation, in line with our vision to enable<br />
re-industrialisation and economic empowerment of Kano and environs through improving the reliability<br />
and quality of power supply”.<br />
The Zawaciki power plant, which is the first of many to follow, was co-funded by members of KEDCO’s<br />
Core Investor Consortium, the World Bank (through the Nigerian Electrification Project with the Rural<br />
Electrification Agency) and the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet. The $2 million Interconnected<br />
mini-grid (the largest of its kind in Nigeria) includes &#8211; a 1MW interconnected solar-diesel hybrid solar plant;<br />
low voltage network revamp and rehabilitation; and metering for 2000+ consumers, he hinted.<br />
Also speaking at the site, a representative from the new Core Investor Future Energies Africa and Director<br />
on the Board of KEDCO, Mr. Habib Daura stated that “We are in serious discussions with the institutional<br />
investors and the Governments of Kano, Katsina and Jigawa to re-capitalise and re-position this entity to<br />
be the best performing DISCO in the country.”<br />
The new Core Investors have signaled the intent to make Kano DISCO the first “Green DISCO in Africa”<br />
through the usage of Embedded Solar Hybrid Power Plants, mini-grids, Energy Storage Systems (ESS) and<br />
Power Purchase Agreements with Generators with Clean Energy such as nearby hydro-power plants.<br />
The Zawaciki power plant was built by developer Bagaja Renewables with the construction executed by a<br />
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<p>KEDCO says it plans to execute more mini-grids with a<br />
suite of Developers and EPC’s led by those that executed the Zawaciki project so as to speed up execution<br />
of the project to build out 100 interconnected mini-grids in an accelerated time-frame.</p>
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<p>The Zawaciki community is very excited about the development. At a recent Friday Sermon, the Imam at<br />
Zawaciki Mosque (speaking in Hausa) mentioned that “we should pray for the success of this<br />
development, I have never experienced this much constant and uninterrupted power supply</p>
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