NIGERIA?S state-run electricity company NEPA is anxiously awaiting the launch of a US power project in the economic capital Lagos, officials said on Wednesday. The US firm Enron was due to have begun supplying electricity to the city grid in December, but the project has yet to take off. Authorities in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, had blamed the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) for the delay, saying the company was “frustrating” the independent power project. But NEPA said in a statement on Wednesday: “We are very anxious to see the project through. No one wants to stop that kind of project. It should be implemented religiously. We won’t compromise standards, however.” The deal to supply electricity to the city grid was signed in December 1999 between Lagos State, NEPA and the US power group Enron Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Enron was expected to complete the first phase of the project by December last year. Enron was to supply 90 megawatts of electricity to the city in the first phase and increase it to 270 megawatts by August from barges floated on the Lagos lagoon. – AFP
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