NIGERIA: SIEMENS POWER GENERATION TO BUILD POWER PLANT.(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, January, 2005

Siemens Power Generation will construct the Geregu Gas Turbine Power Plant in Nigeria under a turnkey contract from the National Electric Power Authority of Nigeria. The 414-megawatt plant will be located in Ajaokuta, approximately 200 km south of the capital Abuja, and will consist of three Siemens SGT5-2000E (formerly called V94.2) gas turbines.

Startup of the natural gas-fired plant is scheduled for late 2006. "The Nigerian market offers very good prospects. In the mid- to long-term, power generation will play a key role here, particularly in further development of the Nigerian gas market," said Klaus Voges, CEO of Siemens Power Generation.