The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Gas Company, Ms. Judith Adjobah Blay, is urging the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), the economic regulator for utilities, to consider increasing the transmission tariff to support plant expenditures and future investments.
According to her, a tariff adjustment would help sustain maintenance and investment at the facility, while ensuring the reliability needed to support power generation.
“It is very necessary that we at Ghana Gas approach the PURC to convince them of certain expenditures and investments that we are making, which warrant an increase—especially in our transmission tariffs,” she said on Friday during a tour of the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant in the Western Region by the Parliamentary Select Committee on Energy.
Madam Blay warned that the consequences of inaction would be more severe than a modest increase in tariffs.
“If Ghana Gas does not have sufficient funds to operate and maintain the plant, the consequences will be far more dire than a slight increase in tariffs,” she stated
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