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Ghana, according to the Minister-designate of Railways, John Peter Amewu has taken a major step in its history by exporting 250 to 300 MW of electricity to its neighboring countries.
Speaking to the Nominations Commission today, Amewu said the country has generated enough electricity to exceed citizens’ demands and is currently exporting a significant number of megawatts of electricity to Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin.
“I am happy to report to this Assembly that, for the first time in the history of this country, export agreements sometimes exceed around 250 to 300 megawatts granted to Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin and the Republic of Togo, ”he declared. .
In 2019, the government announced its intention to export electricity to Mali and Niger.
The Akufo-Addo administration explained that the two countries will join West African countries that were already benefiting from Ghana’s energy to help improve socio-economic conditions in neighboring countries of Ghana.
MP Hohoe, however, explained that the receptors of the electricity are not developed enough to use all the energy supplied, which ends up being wasted, and to account for the financial loss resulting from the excess energy. produced.
“Exporting electricity is not like transporting a cargo of crude oil. Unfortunately, most of these countries do not have developed infrastructure like we did in Ghana.
“So we export electricity to the border of Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso, but when it gets there, there is no demand and these are some of the limiting factors.”
Although he hoped that Ghana could increase its electricity exports in the future, he lamented that the infrastructural limitations of the receptors of this exported energy made this task difficult.
“Ghana could increase its exports but the infrastructure is not developed in these countries, so we are limited by the amount of energy we can export, which is why it comes back to us as power available and not consumed. . “
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