According to Nana Amoasi VII, Executive Director of the Institute of Energy Security, the nation shouldn’t have seen frequent power outages, or “dumsor,” since 2017.
He asserted that the nation possessed all the resources needed to produce and supply electricity for use without experiencing any problems beyond that year.
“With the opportunities and resources entrusted to the current government in 2017, we shouldn’t have been experiencing dumsor at all because we had a high installed capacity, a very dependable capacity of 4,300 megawatts,” he said.
While talking about the nation’s current power crisis on Saturday, November 23, with Samson Lardy, he added that although the nation currently has a reliable capacity of 5,100 megawatts, “we are struggling to produce power to the extent of just 3,100 megawatts.”
Ing. Asamoah David, the Electricity Company of Ghana’s (ECG) interim managing director, also appeared on the show and gave the country the assurance that the situation is under control and that the power supply will improve in the upcoming weeks.
Nana Amoasi, however, didn’t agree with the ECG head. “We cannot rely on the assurances provided by the ECG boss,” the statement said, highlighting the fact that the nation had a reliable power supply prior to 2017 and that the current administration had not been able to adequately manage it.
Additionally, the chief charged that the government was “suppressing information in the energy sector.” In contrast to prior years, he said, the public could readily obtain information on the power supply for appropriate analysis and recommendations to enhance the industry.
Prior to 2017, the John Mahama administration experienced frequent power outages, which is how the term “Dumsor” was created in the nation. Before the current NPP government, led by Akufo-Addo, won the election, the government at the time looked for ways to make the system better.
For the majority of the administration, the country’s power supply appeared to be stable until recent months, when sporadic problems began to arise, mostly as a result of the government’s failure to compensate Independent Power Producers (IPPs), who produce electricity to support state-owned power plants.
In early October of this year, Sunon Asogli, one of the major IPP companies, ceased operations because of the government’s debt. If payments don’t improve, three other IPPs have already cut back on their power supply to the country, threatening to shut it down completely.
Source: myjoyonline.com
