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General News of Saturday, March 16, 2019
Source: ghananewsagency.org
2019-03-16
Ghanaians have expressed anger at the sudden return of power outages, commonly known as "dumsor".
Mr. John Peter Amewu, Minister of Energy, badured Ghanaians that the recent power outages in some parts of the country did not in any way constitute the return of "dumsor".
According to him, the government is working diligently to remedy the situation and ensure that Ghana's energy system works effectively.
"Let me say that the events that led to the challenges facing the energy system in Ghana are by no means the return of" dumsor ". We are working diligently to remedy the situation. "
Mr. Amewu gave badurance when he informed Parliament of recent electrical disturbances on Ghana's electricity grid on Tuesday, March 12 and Wednesday, March 13, 2019.
The minority in Parliament attributed power cuts across the country to the liquidity problems in the electricity sector and urged the government to be frank with Ghanaians and to publish a timetable for reducing electricity supplies. charges to help consumers plan their activities.
According to the minority, the recent power outages reflect the financial difficulties of the energy sector due to the government's inability to pay off its debt.
They claim that there is a huge deficit of 1,000 megawatts because the electricity sector is bankrupt and the country can not pay for electricity that it consumes.
Mr. Amewu also explained that the electrical system had suffered a number of disruptions that had resulted in an interruption of the customers' power supply.
He added that the main cause of the breakdown was the ongoing construction of the Pokuase Interchange, which necessitated the diversion of GRIDCO's 330kv transmission lines connecting Tema to Aboadze.
This requires taking the entire line to the central office of the business district.
Mr Amewu also explained that due to the failure of the 330 kv line, no power supply had been pbaded from Aboadze to Accra.
He added that power should be transferred from Akosombo to Mallam, Winneba and Cape Coast, to the western part of the country through the 161 kV transmission line.
These 161 kV lines were overloaded, triggering it as a protective measure to prevent any major damage to the equipment.
He said that transmission lines across the country are interconnected to the extent that the disruption of a transmission line has a devastating effect on others.
He added that power plants are designed to shut down automatically in response to hiccups during power transfer.
Mr. Amewu further explained that it had become necessary to temporarily put the crap in circulation and limit the flow of energy across the coastal corridor in order to facilitate the stability of the entire network. during the hijacking of the Pokuase Line.
"This problem is therefore a pure operational and technical challenge at the stage of transmission, it has nothing to do with technical defects at the stage of generation or distribution of the energy value chain. ", he added.
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