Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), on Tuesday began the tender process for the planned embedded power generation project.
Embedded electricity generation project is an arrangement where bulk electricity is generated outside the national grid through a bilateral agreement between a distribution company and a generating company within the coverage area of the company
The notice for the tender is contained in a statement signed by Mr ldemudia Godwin, Assistant General Manager, Corporate Communications of the company.
According to the statement, the tender is part of efforts to actualise the company’s embedded generation project.
It said that they had held a pre-bid conference with representatives of the companies and organisations that had earlier been pre-qualified for the projects.
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The statement said that participants at the pre-bid conference lauded the initiative of EKEDC on the embedded generation project and expressed happiness at their prequalification.
It also quotes the participants as saying that their partnership with EKEDC would evolve new ways of enhancing improved power supply to customers.
Earlier, the Deputy Managing Director of EKEDC, Mr Ramesh Narayanan, told representatives of the prequalified organisations that the massive response to the prequalification advertisement was an attestation that the country had everything to turn around the electricity industry.
He said the purpose of the pre-bid conference was for the prequalified organisations to have a very clear picture of the project and what it entailed before the commencement of bid for the project.
(NAN)
