Tashar wutar lantarki ta Azura-Edo
Tashar wutar lantarki ta Azura-Edo, wata tashar samar da wutar lantarki ce mai amfani da iskar gas, wacce a halin yanzu tana aiki da karfin megawatt 461, dake birnin Benin a Najeriya.  Wannan shi ne kashi na farko na aikin gine-gine mai hawa uku na haɗin gwiwar masana'antar iskar gas mai karfin megawatt 1,500.

Wuri 
Tashar wutar tana arewa maso gabashin birnin Benin a jihar Edo, kimanin , ta hanya, gabas da Lagos, babban birnin kasuwancin Najeriya.  Wannan wurin yana kusan , ta hanyar, kudu maso yammacin Abuja, babban birnin kasar.  Matsakaicin yanki na tashar wutar lantarki sune:06°24'32.0"N, 05°41'01.0"E (Latitude:6.408889; Longitude:5.683611).

Dubawa 
Azura-Edo IPP wata tashar wutar lantarki ce ta budaddiyar iskar gas. Ana kiran tashar wutar lantarki da sunan "Azura-Edo Independent Power Plant" ko "Azura-Edo IPP", saboda kuɗaɗen da ake buƙata don gina tashar ta fito ne daga kamfanoni masu zaman kansu, maimakon daga gwamnati. Masu kamfanoni masu zaman kansu na masana'antar sun dauki hadarin ginin. Hatsarin bayan gini da kasadar aiki su ma masu irin da ayyukansu da ƴan kwangilar kula da su.

Mallaka 
Tashar wutar lantarki mallakar Azura Power Holdings ne, wani kamfani mai rike da hannun jari don ayyukan samar da wutar lantarki mai zaman kansa a Afirka. Mafi yawan masu saka hannun jari a cikin Azura Power Holdings sune Actis Capital, kamfani mai zaman kansa mai hedikwata a London tare da dalar Amurka biliyan 7.8 karkashin gudanarwa. A cikin shekarar 2004, an fitar da shi daga rukunin CDC, mallakar Gwamnatin Birtaniya.  

Masu saka hannun jari a cikin masana'antar sun haɗa da: 1. Africa50, dandalin zuba jarin ababen more rayuwa na kasashen Afirka. 2. Anergi Group, wani kamfanin makamashi da ke aiki a cikin ci gaban tattalin arzikin Afirka. 3. Amaya Capital, wani kamfani na saka hannun jari wanda ke mai da hankali kan fannin samar da ababen more rayuwa a Afirka da 4. Gwamnatin jihar Edo, wacce ke da hannun jarin kashi 2.5 cikin dari a kamfanin.

Kuɗaɗe 
Gidan wutar lantarkin ya ci dalar Amurka miliyan 900 dan gina shi. An samu tallafin ne daga cibiyoyin kuɗi goma sha biyar, a kasashe tara.  Teburin da ke ƙasa, yana kwatanta masu saka hannun jari a cikin aikin. Bugu da ƙari, Babban Bankin Duniya na Ƙaddamarwa da Ci Gaba (IBRD) ya ba da garantin haɗarin; yayin da Hukumar Garanti ta Zuba Jari ta Multilateral (MIGA) ta ba da inshorar haɗarin siyasa (political risk). Dukansu IBRD da MIGA membobi ne na Rukunin Bankin Duniya.

Gini 
An fara aikin gina masana'antar ne a watan Janairun 2016 a karkashin wani kwangilar Injiniya, Siyayya da Gini ("EPC") tare da hadin gwiwar kungiyar da ta kunshi (a) Siemens AG na Jamus (b) Siemens Nigeria Limited da (c) Julius Berger Nigeria Limited. Siemens kuma ya samar da injina, janareta, transfoma da sauran kayan aikin lantarki. An kammala aikin ne a ranar 30 ga watan Afrilu 2018, watanni shida kafin lokacin da aka tsara, nasarar da aka samu ga tsari mai  wannan girman. 

An kashe kusan sa'o'i miliyan 5 na aiki a masana'antar, ba tare da wani rauni da ya samu ba, kuma an rubuta sunayen duk ma'aikatan ginin da ma'aikatan gine-gine da yawansu ya haura 2,000, a yanzu haka an rubuta su a jikin tagulla a gaban ginin. gudanarwa da ginin masana'antar.

Fitar da iskar gas 
Mabuɗin tushen hayaƙi daga tashar wutar lantarkin Azura  sun samo asali ne daga tarin turbin iskar gas guda huɗu, kuma baƙin  injin dizal kuma zai haɗa da kusan 20 ppm NOx, 30 ppm SOx da adadin H2S. Kimanin tan 2,178,000 na carbon dioxide ana sa ran za a saki a duk shekara sakamakon aikin tashar wutar lantarkin.

Duba kuma 

 Jerin tashoshin wutar lantarki a Najeriya

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