Lagos — Income Electrix Limited, a wholly African owned power solutions company has taken its competence beyond the shores of Nigeria, following its successful completion and commissioning of the phase one of a 36 megawatts Independent Power Plant (IPP) in Freetown, Sierra Leone recently.

This first phase, with a capacity of 10 MW, is the first of the three IPP projects to be built by Income Electrix Limited under the country's three years emergency power plan. The diesel-fired plant, located on Black Hall Road, Eastern Freetown was commissioned by the country's president, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma recently amidst ecstatic jubilation by a large crowd of East Freetown residents and businesses that have lived without electricity for more than 11 years.

President Koroma lauded the management of Income Electrix, under the leadership of Engr O. Matthew Edevbie, for sharing the vision of his administration for public-private sector collaboration in meeting the short term/emergency solution to the electricity requirement for the socio-economic recovery of Sierra Leone. Earlier in her speech, Minister of Energy and Power, Haja Afsatu Kabba expressed her satisfaction with the quality of equipment and materials used on the project by Income Electrix, noting that the ability of the Nigerian company to deliver the IPP within a short period of ten weeks was indeed an indication of the seriousness the company and its team of engineers attached to the project.

Managing Director, Income Electrix Limited, Engr. O. Matthew Edevbie described the Sierra Leone IPP project as another crystallization of his company's vision for a truly pan-African, pan-Ecowas, African-owned Company that delivers life-transforming services, helping in bringing good things to life.