Ghana: Power Outages Will End In A Few Days–ECG Board Chair

The Deputy Minister for Energy and Board Chairman of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Herbert Krapa, has expressed confidence that the current erratic power supply facing Ghana will come to an end in the next few days.

According to him, the government has implemented some measures to ensure that the intermittent power supply is ended to enable Ghanaians enjoy regular power supply.

Mr Krapa gave the assurance in a post on his Facebook page on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, after joining President Akufo-Addo to inaugurate the 15MW peak solar project in Kaleo in the Upper West Region.

“As I said earlier today at Kaleo, at the inauguration of VRA’s 15MW Solar Plant, the government has put in place immediate measures to ensure the return of uninterrupted supply of power to consumers. I can, therefore, state that the unfortunate power challenges Ghanaians are facing should be over in the next few days.

“We are fully confident that the measures being put in place should resolve the service interruptions. We empathise with all consumers and apologise unreservedly for the effects of the outages on our daily lives. Please bear with us. We are fixing it and we are nearly there,” Herbert Krapa’s post further read.

Although his post did not detail the measures being implemented to end the current erratic power supply, this portal has chanced on a release suggesting that West Coast Gas Ghana Limited will redirect gas supply to certain power plants in a bid to optimise and offer the country with more generation.

“Half of gas being supplied to TICO by VRA is expected to be redirected to Cenpower to run a full combined cycle while VRA will redirect gas supply from Kpone Thermal Power Plant to Sunon Asogli for its Phase 1 to run in full combined cycle.”

The statement explained that “a more efficient way of utilising natural gas is to dispatch available combine cycle plants ahead of simple cycle plants. This proposal is based on current gas supply constraints and available thermal plants.”

The proposed redirection of the usage of gas in powering the available thermal plants is “expected to add 100NW to the grid, making use of the same gas available,” the statement noted.

Source: https://energynewsafrica.com