Azura - Edo

After over six years in development, financial close for Phase 1 was reached on 28 December 2015. Construction started on 5 January 2016 and the plant started operating in May 2018, a full eight months ahead of schedule. Siemens and Julius Berger were the joint EPC contractors.

With a full generation capacity of 1,500 MW, the facility is located on a 100 hectare site in Edo State that can accommodate planned expansions to support future energy demand.

Developed by a best-in-class team with decades of industry experience, Azuro-Edo provides balancing power to stabilise the national grid. Reliable, affordable access to power is a critical enabler of the industrial and agricultural development required to support job creation at scale and the complex development requirements created by Nigeria’s massive projected population growth over the coming decades.

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Increasing from 180 million people today to 300 million. This will place unprecedented demand on an energy infrastructure that is already strained.

Improving affordable access to power is a key driver of Nigeria’s development agenda. Our role is to ramp up generating capacity today to meet existing demand and create the foundations for a sustainable energy mix that can meet future demand.

The country’s abundant supplies of natural gas provide the most efficient, reliable and safe pathway to rapid industrialisation and the emergence of a sustainable energy mix.

We are committed to the highest levels of transparency and accountability in our operations so we developed an app and dashboard to show the performance of the Azura Edo plant on a daily basis.