The Federal Government of Nigeria Monday stated that four hydropower projects with a combined capacity to inject 110 megawatts of electricity to the national grid had been concluded.
It announced 11 other hydropower projects currently ongoing at the various project sites with a total capacity of 3,750MW of electricity.
The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, disclosed this in a press release on the infrastructure development by the Federal Ministry of Water Resources.
In the document by the FMWR, Adamu explained that Nigeria’s hydropower potential was 12,220MW, adding that Kainji, Jebba and Shiroro dams account for 1,930MW of this figure.
