Despite government’s assurance that it is adopting viable measures to avert the country’s power cut crisis in the shortest possible time, there has been a prediction that the crisis could extend at least to the end of the year.
The Executive Director of the Institute for Energy Security (IES) Nana Amoasi VII says unless critical issues within the country’s energy sector are addressed, the frequent power outages known as ‘dumsor’ is set to extend to the end of the year 2025.
According to him, it has become imperative for the Electricity Company of Ghana (Ghana) to address issues of inefficiency, collect enough revenue, and ensure that there is a fair distribution of revenue amongst participating entities within the energy sector. This, he said would help address infrastructural deficits and help invest properly into power generation.
“Until the ECG fixes its inefficiency, collects enough of the revenue, and ensures that each participant within the energy sector gets a fair share of the revenue, we will continue to have this challenge. This is because it will be difficult for the transmitter, GRIDCo, to invest in its ageing infrastructure, and even with ECG and its infrastructure, it is suffering.
“It will be difficult for the power generator, be it public or private, to generate power because they also need to make some input into the power generation. There will be difficulty for WAPCo to continue supplying the natural gas. So, we are in a very uncomfortable state.
“We know very well that we have these challenges, and until we address the inefficiencies in the ECG, I am sorry to say again that we will see dumsor till the end of the year,” he explained.
Ghana’s energy sector is plagued with debts mounting in millions. This has fueled dissatisfaction among power producers, with many constantly threathening to cut power to ECG, government’s major power distributing entity.
Meanwhile, John Jinapor, Minister for Energy and Green Transition has asked the public exercise patience while the government attempts to address the supply interruptions. This was during a visit to the pipeline undergoing planned maintenance.
He stated that one of the main causes of the nation’s continuous power problems is the unavailability of spare capacity.
Source: Dehotpress
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