Ghana: Ashanti Region Set To Become Electricity Generation Hub As ECG Visits Generation Plants In The Region

The Electricity Company of Ghana, led by Mr Ebenezer Baiden, Director of New Business and Risk Management, has visited the generation site at Anwomaso in the Ashanti Region.

Anwomaso, aside from housing the second Bulk Supply Point (BSP) in Kumasi, is now the hub of electricity generation in the middle belt of Ghana with over three different plants under construction and a gas supply company.

Mr Baiden and the ECG delegation visited Genser, Aksa Energy, CENIT Energy and the KITPP, formerly known as AMERI.

The visit formed part of efforts by the nation’s largest power distribution company to familiarise themselves with the operations of upstream players to understand and monitor their activities.

Aksa Energy is expected to complete phase one of its project in May and Phase Two by the end of 2025.

The project would see Aksa generate 205MW to the national grid.

CENIT Energy, on its part, is expected to generate 330MW with 110MW available by 3rd Quarter as phase one.

VRA is currently running six units of the K1TPP with a capacity between 138-145MW.

The second phase of relocating the Ameri plant from the Western Region to Kumasi is expected to be completed by July 2025. The remaining four units are already on site.

Genser, as the gas supply company, is expected to provide gas for all these plants once completed.

Addressing the generation companies, Mr Ebenezer Baiden admonished the companies to strictly adhere to the local content law and ensure gender balance in employment.

“ECG, as a company, promotes gender equality through the Gender and Social inclusion policy so kindly ensure you try as much as possible to recruit from the Region and also consider women during employment to enable indigenes benefit directly from this project.”

Briefing the media, Mr Benjamin Obeng Antwi, the ECG Public Relations Office for Ashanti West Region, indicated that this project is a step in the right direction to improve power supply in the Region and the country.

“Currently most of our generation plants are in Tema and Western Region so having a generation site in the middle belt to boost power supply from the middle belt to the northern sector is a step in the right direction.”

Mr Antwi further indicated that the completion of these projects to make Ashanti Region a generation hub in the middle belt would help reduce transmission losses and also improve voltage profile in Ashanti Region.

“Once power will be generated at Anwomaso in Ashanti Region and our cherished customers will be closer to the source, the Voltage profile will improve and transmission losses will also reduce since power will not be transmitted from Tema or Western Region to Kumasi,” he said.

In attendance were Ing Mark Wiafe (GM/Ashanti East), Ing Asare Mensah (GM/Ashanti South), Ing George Amoah (GM/Ashanti West) and Ing. Peter Kofi Fletcher (GM/Ashanti Sub-T)

Source: https://energynewsafrica.com