ALSCON Smelter power plant

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ALSCON Smelter power plant is a 180-megawatt (MW) natural gas power station in Akwa Ibom state, Nigeria.

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Owner: Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON) [100%]^[1]
Parent: RUSAL [100%]^[1]^[2]
Location: Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom, Nigeria
Coordinates: 4.5687, 7.5735 (exact)^[3]
Gross generating capacity (operating): 180 MW
- Unit 6: Natural gas^[1]^[4] gas turbine^[5], 90 MW^[5] (start-up in 1997)^[6]
- Unit 5: Natural gas^[1]^[4] gas turbine^[5], 90 MW^[5] (start-up in 1997)^[6]
Gross generating capacity (mothballed): 360 MW
- Unit 3: Natural gas^[1]^[4] gas turbine^[5], 90 MW^[5] (start-up in 1997)^[6]
- Unit 4: Natural gas^[1]^[4] gas turbine^[5], 90 MW^[5] (start-up in 1997)^[6]
- Unit 2: Natural gas^[1]^[4] gas turbine^[5], 90 MW^[5] (start-up in 1997)^[6]
- Unit 1: Natural gas^[1]^[4] gas turbine^[5], 90 MW^[5] (start-up in 1997)^[6]
Gross generating capacity (announced): 360 MW
- Unit 3-1: Natural gas^[7] gas turbine^[8], 130 MW^[8] (start-up in 2026)^[8]
- Unit 2-1: Natural gas^[7] gas turbine^[8], 100 MW^[8] (start-up in 2024)^[8]
- Unit 3-2: Natural gas^[7] gas turbine^[8], 130 MW^[8] (start-up in 2026)^[8]

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↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 ^6.4 ^6.5 "Ready for Start-Up". Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria. Archived from the original on June 2, 2021. Retrieved January 28, 2022.
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 "tcnpmu.ng/pmu_assets/pmu_files/2018/02/Final-Report-Text.pdf" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on November 1, 2021. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
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