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Company News from Saturday, April 6, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-04-06
John Jinapor, former Deputy Minister of Electricity
Former Deputy Energy Minister John Jinapor questioned the financial situation of the country's energy sector.
His comments follow weeks of uneven energy supply nationwide across Ghanaians.
Less than twenty-four hours after the Energy Distribution Service (PDS) published a load shed schedule, it was suspended in accordance with GRIDCO's guidelines for energy applications. sufficient for the whole country.
But Mr Jinapor said it was necessary to take sustainable measures to address the challenges facing the energy sector.
"The other thing is the long-term sustainability of the electricity sector. Gas alone is not a challenge. The main challenge today is the financial well – being of the energy sector and as long as this problem is not solved, we will continue to have a major challenge.
"So, I think industry players and stakeholders should simply look beyond the gas link and make sure that we meet the financial challenge to which the energy sector is confronted with. Everyone wants to have continued power, but it has to be transparent, "he said.
Financial difficulties are not attributable to irregular power supply – Ministry of Energy
The Ministry of Energy ensures that the country's irregular electricity supply status is not the result of financial problems or mismanagement.
Nana Oppong Damoah, head of communications at the Ministry of Energy, blamed the issue on logistical difficulties, noting that deeply rooted financial problems in the energy sector are not new.
"We had logistical problems with the fuel supply. We could not buy. It has been a long time since we have financial problems in the energy sector, which is why we call it a legacy debt situation, "he said.
He cited the partial closure of the gas infrastructure in recent weeks and the difficulties in fuel supply as contributing factors to recent energy problems that have led to some form of load shedding in the country.
"Unfortunately, fuel supply has been reduced along the value chain as some processes have fallen behind and this has led to the current situation," he said.
"Dumsor or no dumsor"?
Energy Minister John Peter Amewu had called on Ghanaians to reject the minority's badertions in Parliament that the government had re-established the country in an era of irregular energy supply commonly known as "Dumsor" .
The minority has been hard on the government to be frank with Ghanaians and for recent power outages across the country.
According to them, the recent power outages reflect the financial difficulties of the energy sector due to the mismanagement of the sector by the government.
Many parts of the country continue to be hit daily by a widespread power outage.
The African Center for Energy Policies (ACEP) also called for more transparency from the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), while Ghanaians were more interested in a possible downward shift in the burden that had marked the energy crisis in the country. country six years ago.
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