You will never meet an extended dummy under Nana Addo – Amewu

General News of Sunday, March 17, 2019

Source: rainbowradioonline.com

2019-03-17

Energy Minister John Peter Amewu has informed Parliament that the circumstances that led to protracted power outages under former President John Dramani Mahama will never recur under President Akufo-Addo.

He said that this administration better understands the energy sector and that it will manage it financially and technically in order to prevent the 5-year-old Ghanan dumsor met under Mr. Mahama.

Mr. Amewu explained that the recent breakdowns resulted from "disturbances" made necessary by the difficulties encountered in the newly commissioned Accra substation.

This, he said, is due to the relocation of two towers to pave the way for the building of the Pokuase Interchange.

"The root causes of the breakdown are the ongoing road trade construction in Pokuase, which has necessitated the diversion of transmission lines and GRIDCo towers linking Tema to Aboadze and its surroundings," he said. .

According to the minister, transmission lines in the country are interconnected as "disruptions in one transmission line have cascading effects on other lines".

The power plants were designed to shut down automatically in the event of system disturbances, stating that it was a "protective measure", adding that it was necessary to "temporarily relocate and limit the flow of power". energy in the coastal corridor to facilitate the stability of the entire transport network, work is completed on the diversion of lines at Pokuase. "

"This is a purely operational and technical challenge at the transmission stage; it has nothing to do with technical faults in generation or distribution in the energy sector. "

Japanese engineers are helping their Ghanaian counterparts cope with the fluctuations in power supply that have rocked the country, he said.

"Under his excellent Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, they have [Ghanaians are] will benefit from an uninterrupted power supply because we understand that energy is the key to the development of this country, "he said.