Ghana: We Have Sufficient Fuel To Keep Our Lights On-GRIDCo

Ghana’s power transmission company, Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), has explained that the West African country has sufficient fuel to keep its generation plants working, hence there is not going to be power crisis.

According to GRIDCo, the country experienced power crisis in the past because of non-availability of fuel to keep the power plants running.

Speaking in an interview with energynewsafrica.com, Director of Systems Operation at GRIDCo, Mark Baah said due to the arrangement government has put in place, there is fuel to power the generators.

“The main cause of the past erratic power supply, christened ‘dumsor’, was as a result of unavailability of crude oil or gas, but there’s abundant gas now to fuel our thermal plants to generate power. And so, we have no problem in that regard,” he explained.

He added that “we are looking forward to implementing our arrangements in the long term in order to avert any situation of erratic power supply.”

According to him, some of the plants, like Karpower and Aksa, run on heavy fuel oil and “we are reliably informed that there’s enough fuel to power them.

“Others, like the Asogli Kpone Thermal and VRA plant in Tema and Aboadze, run on gas and we generate gas from here (Ghana) and import some from Nigeria, thus, the generators that operate on this fuel are very efficient. As I speak to you now, we have no challenges with fuel.

“I want to assure Ghanaians that, we will continue to give them constant and regular power supply,” he ended.