Power stabilizes in 10 days – Ministry of Energy

General News of Monday, April 1, 2019

Source: dailyguideafrica.com

2019-04-01

The Ministry of Energy has badured that intermittent power cuts in the country would be completed in the next 10 days.

Speaking to the press in Accra about intermittent power cuts, Ben K. D Asante, managing director of Ghana Gas, which reports to the Ministry of Energy, said that the power outages have been delayed. Electricity resulted from a planned total closure. gas supply at the Atuabo plant.

He added that the total closure, which began last Saturday, will last 10 days to allow the Ghana pipeline between Takoradi and Tema to interconnect through the West African Gas Company (WAPCO), who operates the pipelines.

Some of the measures, according to the director general of Ghana Gas, should help end Nigeria's persistent gas shortage by improving the country's gas supply source.

As a result, the ministry refuted claims that the country was sinking into "dumsor".

Asante explained that to interconnect the pipelines, it was necessary to shut down completely at a given time, which led to power outages in some parts of the country.

"We want to be able to take over gas from West -Takoradi where we are generating more than our operational capacity through the interconnection using the WAPCO system to East -Tema where the Gas supply is "anemic", he said.

He said that the gas interconnection exercise would cost $ 400,000 a day in Ghana, though it was not undertaken during this period.

Deputy Minister of Energy William Owuraku Aidoo said the ministry did not anticipate that the exercise that began about three weeks ago would affect the public because it had taken all necessary steps to minimize the effects.

"As a ministry, our hope was to minimize the interruption of Ghanaians' energy supply. We hoped you would not know this work was going on, "he added.

He pointed out that the government had planned the supply of fuel to power the power plants during the exercise, adding that Ghanaians would be the beneficiaries of a reliable and reliable power supply system. sustainable once the exercise is over.

"When it's over, we will have 330,000,000 scalps from the two old fields, because with this interconnection we can do reverse gas transport, which is great news," he added.

He therefore urged Ghanaians to exercise restraint on the part of power producers to ensure that Ghanaians have an ultimate advantage. "