Egbin Thermal Power Station

Egbin Thermal Power Plant,Ijede
Location of the Egbin Thermal Power Plant, Ijede in Nigeria
Country	Nigeria
Location	Egbin, Ikorodu, Lagos State
Coordinates	6°33′48″N 3°36′55″E / 6.56333°N 3.61528°E / 6.56333; 3.61528Coordinates: 6°33′48″N 3°36′55″E / 6.56333°N 3.61528°E / 6.56333; 3.61528
Status	Operational
Commission date	Unit 1: May,1986 Unit 2: November,1985 Unit 3: May,1985 Unit 4:November,1986 Unit 5: May,1987 Unit 6: November,1987
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Gas
Secondary fuel	Oil
Power generation
Units operational	6 x 220 MW
Make and model	Hitachi/Emerson
Nameplate capacity	1,320 MW
Egbin Thermal Power Plant, Ijede is the largest power plant in Nigeria and West Africa.

Egbin Thermal Power Plant, Ijede

Egbin Power Plc is the largest power generating station in Nigeria with an installed capacity of 1,320 MW consisting of 6 Units of 220MW each. The station is located at Ijede / Egbin, in Ikorodu, It is about 40 km north east of the city of Lagos, and is situated on low land in Ijede and bounded by the Lagoon to the south, Agura/Gberigbe to the north and situated in Ijede Local Council Development Area.

The government acquired most of the land for the project by resettling the inhabitants to Ipakan. The first unit of the plant was commissioned in July 1985,while the last was commissioned in September 1986. The station is of reheat type with high intermediate low pressure impulse reaction turbine design and a hydrogen cooled generator.

Construction work started in 1982 by Marubeni Consortium which used Hitachi Company of Japan for the Electric/Mechanical and Bouygues of France for civil works . The first unit (Unit 3) was completed and commissioned on the 13th May, 1985 and the other five units were commissioned at six-monthly intervals .Upon completion of the ramp-structured edifice, the commissioning was carried out under the auspice of the then Head of States and commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.

The Egbin Thermal Power Plant is a gas-fired plant with six 220MW independent boiler turbine units. It can also run on High Pour Fuel Oil, commonly called HPFO.

Power generated is sent to the national grid by three main transmission lines, namely: Ikeja West (330 kV) line; Aja (330 kV) line and Ikorodu (132 kV) lines.

After a series of negotiations and payment of $407.3 million, The Federal Government of Nigeria handed over Egbin Thermal Power Plant to the core investor, a joint venture between Sahara Power Group and KEPCO, on 1 November 2013. The first attempt at privatising Egbin Power plant was in May 2007 when KEPCO Energy Resources offered to pay $280 million to acquire 51 per cent shares of the company. As confirmation of their interest KEPCO paid $28 million, being the initial payment of 10 percent of the bid price.