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GE’s Upgrade Exceeds Expectations and Boosts Power Plant’s Output and Availability at Nigeria’s Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals

November 17, 2022

PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA — November 17, 2022 — In continuation of its operations improvement and power plant modernization plan, Indorama Eleme Petrochemical

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GE and Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) Successfully Restore up to 360MW in Nigeria Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

September 28, 2020
  • GE safely completed service interventions on three GE 9E gas turbines at the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) power plants in Calabar and Sapele, Nigeria
  • With comprehensive safety measures due to COVID-19 in place, GE and NDPHC quickly ensured both employee safety and on-time project execution
  • Outages were executed on time and the restored power will enable NDPHC to provide the equivalent electricity needed to power up to 2 million Nigerian homes

 

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Microgrids

Thinking Smaller: Microgrids And Big Data Can Bring Electricity To Rural Nigeria

Brendan Coffey
August 21, 2018
Power grids don’t come cheap: It can cost as much as $300,000 a mile to string a set of high-voltage wires. This can be expensive even in the U.S., but in the developing world the price is often prohibitive to extend traditional grids to small rural communities. Over 1 billion people lack reliable access to electricity, some 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa alone. There are very real consequences to that lack of access, including poorer healthcare options and less economic opportunity.
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Innovation

Finding the Next Mark Zuckerberg Is Hard Enough, But What About In Nigeria?

Mary Olushoga Awp Network
December 23, 2016

In cultures that equate success with higher education, how can you foster wider entrepreneurship? Mary Olushoga, AWP Network founder, describes how a business plan competition backfired and what the real lessons are to encourage innovation.

 

 
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Youth Lighting the Way in Africa

November 04, 2014
Converting urine into electricity, creating a more efficient solar cell, distributing a do-it-yourself solar lamp — these are just a few of the innovations that are helping to address Africa’s energy gap.
 
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This Deconstructed Locomotive Will Power Nigeria's Economy

September 17, 2014

Nigeria has fast become Africa’s largest economy, but its infrastructure is still lagging.

The electrical grid is so unpredictable that many businesses use natural gas to produce their own power. But that’s not enough. Sand and water often clog up pipelines and idle generators for weeks at a time. In many parts of the country diesel is still the best and most reliable fuel.

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Lorenzo Simonelli: Fostering a More Sustainable Africa

Lorenzo Simonelli GE
August 12, 2014
Following the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit last week, all eyes are turned to Africa, one of the world’s fastest-growing regions. As economic reports predict acceleration in growth, the sustainability of this growth is becoming an increasingly pressing issue.
 
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Lorraine Bolsinger: Overcoming Africa’s Power Challenges…Together

Lorraine Bolsinger GE
August 11, 2014
Africa is home to 12 of the 20 fastest-growing economies; its strong manufacturing, services and technology sectors are fueling economies around the globe. Africa is achieving these successes without being able to make full use of all its resources because access to electricity is still lacking in many areas.
 
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America’s Tentative Embrace of Africa as Investment Partner

August 07, 2014
Africa is ascendant, but when will America recognize it?
 

Africa’s economic outlook as a whole presents one of the most promising growth stories of anywhere in the world, yet the U.S. remains under-invested in the continent relative to other regions. When you read a headline about Africa in the paper, it’s still more likely to talk about conflict or disease than opportunity.
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Perspectives

Powering Africa: Q&A with Andrew M. Herscowitz

Andrew M Herscowitz Power Africa
August 06, 2014
A little over a year after President Obama announced the initiative to help “plug Africa into the grid of the global economy” by doubling the number of people on the continent with access to electricity, Power Africa is already a high-voltage operation.
 
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