1.4BN PEOPLE HAVE NO ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY – GE

General Electric, a global infrastructure and technical company, says about 1.4 billion
people in the world are cut off from the respective national grids and have no access to any alternative energy source.
The company’s Distributed Power Leader, George Njenga, disclosed this in Port Harcourt, during the opening ceremony of GE’s expansion of Technical Service Centre to include facilities for AERO Derivative Level II
maintenance.
He said his company’s distributed power business aims at providing solutions that will address this situation.
“Distributed Power is power that is generated at or near the point of use. Distributed power will account for 30% of total global electric
capacity additions over the next 8 years” said Njenga.
He disclosed that the GE Technical service facility was built in line with GE’s known tradition of excellence.
He said that aero derivative and gas turbines can now be effectively serviced and repaired in the facility. For the oil and gas sector,he said the facility offers inspection and staging for onshore and offshore equipment, including
compressors and pumps.
According to Mr Njenga, this capability will be transferred to the planned multi-billion naira manufacturing and assembly plant in Calabar.
The Service Centre was originally established to provide repair services for Oil & Gas and power generation equipment but now has
added capability for AERO Derivative maintenance.
The technology service centre had previously been established for the repair and servicing of Oil and  Gas and Power equipment.