The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the United States Agency funding the Ghana Power Compact II, has extended the compact duration to June 2022.
The Ghana Power Compact II, which was started in September 2016, was originally scheduled to end on September 6, 2021.
However, the MCC has extended the Compact citing delay in some of the projects due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Steve Marma, the MCC Country Director, disclosed this to energynewsafrica.com during the inauguration of the Meter Management System established by the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA).
According to him, it is not the practice of rhe MCC to extend the compact period but had to do so because of the exigency of the time.
The Ghana Power Compact II focused on the ECG’s Financial and Operational Turnaround Project, Regulatory Strengthening and Capacity Building Project, Access Project and Energy Efficiency and Demand-side Management Project.
Some of the projects which have been completed under the Compact are the Pokuase Bulk Supply Point, Meter Management System, GIS Complete and AC Test Facility Complete.
“With our partners at the Millennium Development Authority [MiDA], and in partnership with entities like the Electricity Company of Ghana [ECG], the Ghana Power Compact is strengthening the southern power transmission and distribution systems to bring more reliable electricity to Ghana, its citizens and businesses,” Mr Steve Marma said at the inauguration and handing over of the $15 million Meter Management System to the Electricity Company of Ghana.
He added that “this new IT investment will make things a little better for the ordinary Ghanaian who needs electricity in their everyday activities.
“When you finish work and go to pay for your electricity, the pre-paid credit system shouldn’t be down. It now has a backup system to provide redundancy.
“And instead of rushing to the ECG payment centre in your region, once fully rolled out, MMS allows payments across geographic boundaries, giving customers more flexibility at where they pay,” he concluded.
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The Millennium Development Authority (MiDA), an implementing agency for Ghana Power Compact II, has commissioned and officially handed over a modern Meter Management System (MMS) to integrate the Electricity Company of Ghana’s (ECG) Smart pre-paid metering platforms to enhance the customer experience to the management of ECG at the company’s projects office at Kwame Nkrumah Circle, a suburb of Accra, capital of Ghana.
The total cost of the system is US$15,892,800, with Miss contributing US$11,189,901.
The project forms part of the US$316 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)-funded Ghana Power Compact II.
The MCC is an agency of the United States Government.
The MMS System will enable ECG customers connected to the system and be able to buy pre-paid credits anywhere in Ghana and be credited in real-time.
It will also make significant contributions towards improving the ECG’s revenue mobilisation efforts while offering customers greater flexibility in paying for the electricity they consume, even when they travel outside their regions.
“The Meter Management System was specifically requested by ECG as a solution to current challenges with multiple meter types, procured from a variety of meter vendors, none of which could communicate with the other,'” said Prof Yaa Ntiamoah-Baidu, the MiDA Board Chairman, in a speech read on her behalf by Martin Eson-Benjamin, the MiDA CEO.
She also stated that “the mix of activities under the ECG Financial and Operational Turnaround (EFOT) Project is intended to reduce revenue losses and under-billing and ensure that ECG recovers its operational costs and invests in maintenance and expansion, without additional financial support from the government.”
The System can cover some five million ECG customers.
The Meter Management System comprises 17 Servers in six racks, 40 Point-of-Sale devices, UPSs, laptops, printers, which have been delivered to two Sites; the ECG Project Office and the ECG Legon District Office.
At the moment, 12 prepaid meter types have been enrolled onto the MMS System, with others programmed to join in phases.
The state-of-the-art system, supplied and installed by Messrs. Siemens SA, is equipped with full redundancy, a backup that will enable the System to run at all times.
It has a Primary Site and a Disaster Recovery Site with an online real-time backup capability.
“The MMS System would make a big impact on ECG’s revenue collection efforts,” said Keli Gadzekpo, the Board Chairman of ECG.
The Country Director of Millennium Challenge Corporation, Mr Steven Marma said: “The US$316 million MCC Ghana Power Compact is the U.S. Government’s down payment on a brighter future for Ghana, and the completion of the Multimeter Management System is an important milestone for the Compact Programme.
“The MMS is an IT investment that lays the foundation for improved customer service and revenue mobilisation, modernize ECG’s operations and improves service delivery to everyday Ghanaian citizens. MCC looks forward to ECG’s continued rollout of the system across all regions under ECG operations,” he added.
The Deputy Minister for Energy, Andrew Agyapa Mercer, who spoke on behalf of the Minister for Energy, noted that “as part of the government’s policy pursuits for the electricity distribution sub-sector, we are desirous of strengthening the electricity distribution system to enhance competitive electricity supply and retail services for the ultimate benefit of the consumer.”
Hon. Andrews Kofi Egyapa Mercer, Deputy Minster for Energy
He agreed that the Meter Management System “is, undoubtedly, one of the key solutions to the myriad of challenges” ECG currently faces.
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Green and Avro have announced they are leaving the energy market and will cease trading.
The announcement from Green came just one day after it was reported the firm had lined up insolvency advisers.
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The supplier said it was “exiting the market due to the government failing to provide any support to smaller energy suppliers,” Sky News reported.
The firm supplies around 250,000 customers and employs more than 180 people.
Avro Energy, which supplies 580,000 people, also announced it had gone bust on Wednesday afternoon and said energy regulator Ofgem.
A statement on Avro’s website said: “Customers need not worry, their supplies are secure and domestic credit balances are protected.”
It comes as the boss of Ofgem said that the country’s current pace of soaring gas prices is something the watchdog has not seen before.
Chief executive Jonathan Brearley added that “well above” hundreds of thousands of customers could be affected by the hike.
Business and energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng slammed energy companies calling for a lifting of the price cap so they could pass on soaring gas costs to consumers on Wednesday.
Suppliers went into business with their “eyes open,” Kwarteng told MPs, after refusing to bail out failing suppliers.
The secretary said he was committed to keeping the price control, which caps household energy costs at £1,277 a month.
A handful of challenger energy companies have collapsed following price rises including People’s Energy and Utility Point.
What’s more, the UK’s sixth-largest energy company, Bulb, looked to secure an emergency cash injection to avoid collapse, seeking advice from investment bank Lazard.
Some analysts have estimated that the number of energy companies in the UK could be reduced to three-quarters over the coming months, with as few as 10 left.
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Some police officers in Tamale in the Northern Region of Republic of Ghana have subjected residents in the area to caning and beatings for engaging in power theft, popularly known as illegal connection.
The officers were attached to the Revenue Protection Unit of the Northern Electricity Distribution Company ( NEDCo) for routine checks.
However, in a viral video, the officers are seen beating and lashing a man in handcuffs in Lamashegu, a suburb of Lamashegu for allegedly engaging in illegal connection and enjoying electricity freely.
In handcuffs, the man lay of the ground while the officers lash him.
Another man in a blue polo shirt was also seen being lashed while police officers around him were attempting to handcuff him.
Meanwhile, the police administration has since issued a statement to apologise for the unfortunate incident.
In the statement signed by the Acting Director-General of the Public Affairs Department of the Ghana Police Service, ACP Kwesi Ofori said that four of the officers have been interdicted for their action.
The statement said the four breached the standard operating procedure of the Service.
“The officers will face a service inquiry, subject to the regulations of the Ghana Police Service,” the statement said.
“We apologise unconditionally to the affected persons and the general public,” the statement said.
Meanwhile, a source at NEDCo has told energynewsafrica.com that management has seen videos of the unfortunate incident and are investigating the issue.
According to the source, NEDCo will issue a statement when it concludes its investigation.
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The Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA),Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has paid a working visit to the Petroleum Regulatory Agency in Sierra Leone to familiarise himself with their operations.
In a post on the NPA’s Facebook page, the petroleum downstream regulatory authority said Dr Abdul-Hamid, in a meeting with the Executive Chairman for PRA-SL, Dr Brima Baluwa Koroma, shared experiences in regulating the petroleum downstream industry.
“PRA-SL requested to partner Ghana’s National Petroleum Authority in their pursuit to improve their human resource capacity, legal and institutional reforms in their operations,” the post read.
According to the NPA’s post, the visit afforded Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid the opportunity of meeting Dr Edward Hinga Sandi, the Sierra Leonean Minister for Trade and Industry.
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The newly appointed president of TotalEnergies in charge of Exploration and Production and member of the executive committee, Nicolas Terraz, is expected to participate in Africa Oil Week in Dubai.
He will deliver an opening address on Monday, November 8, 2021 on TotalEnergies’ strategic position within the evolving African upstream landscape.
“TotalEnergies remains strongly committed to Africa, and we look forward to sharing and discussing our vision at Africa Oil Week in Dubai,” Terraz said.
Terraz will be accompanied by Henri-Max Ndong Nzue, TotalEnergies’ Senior Vice President for Africa, and Kevin McLachlan, the company’s Senior Vice President of Exploration.
Henri-Max Ndong Nzue
Both will take to the stage to discuss current operating trends, and outline value-creation opportunities through high-impact portfolios and new entry prospects.
This impressive line-up of speakers from TotalEnergies complements its high-profile involvement as one of Africa Oil Week’s leading sponsors.
For many years, TotalEnergies has been a loyal partner of Africa Oil Week, considered as the major event of the oil industry on the African continent.
Terraz joined TotalEnergies in 2001 and was Senior Vice President for Africa from 2019 until August 2021, before being promoted to his current position.
Kevin McLachlan
The appointment of Ndong Nzue, who replaces Terraz as Senior Vice President for Africa, is significant, particularly in the African context. Until recently, Ndong Nzue was previously Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Americas at Total Marketing and Services, and also held the position of Managing Director of Total Gabon.
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A former president of the Advertising Association of Ghana, Mr Reginald Daniel Laryea, has been appointed the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of GOIL Company Limited, Ghana’s leading Oil Marketing Company (OMC).
His appointment was approved alongside three others by the Shareholders of GOIL at a virtual Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), which was to ratify the appointment of the four.
The GOIL new Board Chairman’s brief profile indicates a rich and varied background in the communication industry, having worked with British-American Tobacco from 1976 to 1988 as the Marketing, Advertising and Merchandising Manager.
He set up Media Majique and Research Systems Limited, a full-service advertising agency in Ghana in 1989 which became a worldwide affiliate of Ogilvy and Mather International in 1995.
He received a Special Recognition Award by the International Advertising Association in 2015 for being an eminent speaker at the Africa Rising Conference in Ghana.
In that same year, Mr Laryea received the Advertising Association of Ghana’s Distinguished Personality Award.
He is a member of the Board of the National Media Commission in Ghana and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana.
He is also the Chairman of Media Whizz Kids, a subsidiary experiential and events marketing company and Ogilvy Ghana.
Other members are Mr John Boadu, who is the General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Edwin Alfred Provencal, Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation (BOST) Company Limited and former Technical Advisor to the Minister for Energy, and Ms Angela Forson.
Other board members are Mr Beauclerc A. Williams, Mr Stephen Tengan, Mrs Mabel A. Amoatemaa Sarpong; Mr Kwame Osei-Prempeh, Group CEO and Managing Director of GOIL, and Nana Ama Kusi-Appouh serves as Secretary to the Board.
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South Africa’s power utility company, Eskom, has launched the Renewable Energy Tariff pilot programme to assist many businesses who have corporate renewable energy commitments.
This would enable customers to source a blended electricity supply with up to 100% of their electricity from one of the utility’s renewable sources.
The Renewable Energy Tariff pilot programme gives customers a mechanism to achieve their renewable energy commitments to purchase this energy from Eskom, without the initial capital investment of having to own a renewable energy generator or to enter into long term Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs).
This offer allows customers to have a 24-hour blended renewable supply to their facility, and allows them flexibility to relocate premises without needing to move renewable energy assets.
Eskom generates green power from some of its renewable electricity plants such as the Sere Wind Farm and run-of-river hydro facilities. The Renewable Energy Tariff pilot programme is initially limited to renewable electricity generated from the Sere Wind Farm and only available to Eskom’s customers.
During the period of the pilot programme, Eskom offers a maximum of 300GWh per annum to customers supplied directly by Eskom, on a first-come-first-served basis.
Monde Bala, Group Executive Eskom Distribution Division explains, “The Renewable Energy Tariff is designed to provide a cost-effective and flexible option for Eskom customers to consume renewable power. It further provides flexible, convenient and short-term power purchases for when you move your facilities. It will be available to Eskom supplied customers whose electricity accounts are up to date.”
Bala says the tariff will be available to Eskom business customers who have green targets and who would like to use renewable power in their facility or production processes. All participating customers will have an option to select any percentage of their current electricity usage to be green. The Renewable Energy Tariff can also supplement wheeled electricity from a third party or own renewable electricity generated on site to help customers achieve their clean energy target.
The tariff is designed as a declining block tariff. This means that the more green energy a customer purchases (as a percentage of total consumption), the lower the rate, more detail on the tariff pilot is available from the Eskom website (https://www.eskom.co.za/eas/renewable-energy/).
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Eskom customers therefore have an option to select an affordable contract, which is charged monthly, based on the percentage of renewable energy they consume, and this percentage will be charged monthly as specified in the contract. At the end of 12 consecutive months, Eskom will evaluate the amount of renewable energy in kWh consumed against the contracted percentage, and if the actual capacity is less than the contracted capacity, Eskom will adjust the Renewable Energy Tariff based on the actual percentage. The renewable energy charge payable by the customer will be adjusted accordingly. The customer’s next electricity account will be adjusted to reflect the difference.
Eskom’s Renewable Energy Tariff pilot programme will last for a two-year period ending 31 March 2023, after which the company will make a decision whether to take the tariff for formal approval.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
Ghana’s has realised over $6.5 billion from its oil resources over the last ten years.
Out of the $6.550 billion received from 2011 to 2020, the country’s national oil company, GNPC, received $2,012.16 billion, representing about 30.72 per cent, Annual Budget Funding Amount (ABFA) had $2,557.12 billion (39.04 per cent), the Ghana Heritage Fund had $0.587 billion (8.97 per cent) while the Ghana Stabilisation Fund received $1,393.18 billion (21.27 per cent).
This was disclosed by Professor Kwame Adom-Frimpong, Chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee, at a forum in Takoradi for stakeholders in the Western and Central Regions.
The forum formed part of the 10th Anniversary of PIAC. It was on the theme: ‘A Decade of the Management and Use of Petroleum Revenue in Ghana, Successes and Lessons for future’.
The oil revenue, however, dipped in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic with that year’s projections showing a reduction in royalties from $236,794,156.13 in 2019 to $195,359,565.96 in 2020.
Carried and Participation Interest (CAPI) also went down from $505,987,937.41 to $300,926,631.91 within the same period.
Prof Adom-Frimpong said the Jubilee Fields produced 350,469.95 Million Standard Cubic Feet (mmscf) of gas, Tweneboa Enyenra Ntomme (TEN) had 179,884.98 mmscf and Sankofa Gye Nyame produced 199,126 .687 mmscf to reach a total of 729,481.61 mmscf of gas between 2014 and 2020.
He said the oil monies focused on 12 development poles including health, infrastructure, alternative energy sources, environmental protection, social welfare, security, institutional strengthening and agriculture.
The Enchi-Asankragwa Road, the Kotoka International Airport Terminal Three, the Free SHS, the Kojokrom-Takoradi railway project, the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant and the Anomabo Fish College are examples of how the oil monies had been used in Ghana, he said.
Prof Adom-Frimpong said as a citizen-led group, PIAC would continue to engage the people to have collective views on the usage of revenue from the resource.
He said PIAC would monitor and evaluate the government’s compliance and other relevant institutions in the management and use of petroleum revenues and investments as provided by the law.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
The Boko Haram insurgent group has yet again destroyed four other high tension towers supplying electricity along Damaturu-Maiduguri in Borno State in Nigeria.
The group carried out the destruction of the towers on Friday.
This latest setback comes barely one month after the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) commenced the building of a gas plant to provide electricity to the state in the North-East sub-region.
According to The Punch, a local newspaper, the electric towers were destroyed at the Garin Kuturu village, which is about two kilometres from Auno, an area constantly terrorised by the insurgents.
The report said the attack on the facilities started in the evening at about 7 and lasted up to 10 pm after which the four power lines were destroyed.
Some residents of the state capital who spoke to The Punch expressed their frustration at the latest destruction, stating that the state has suffered enough hardship as a result of the insurgency.
“This latest destruction of the electricity towers has confirmed that these insurgents are still active in the state. It also shows that they are closer to the city than suspected,” Adamu Usman noted.
Another resident, Mohammed Abdullahi questioned the genuineness of the recent surrender by some commanders of the terrorist group.
He said: “I have maintained my position that these Boko Haram terrorists are not repentant. They were forced out by the superior military operation ongoing in their hideouts. We do not trust these terrorists. We don’t believe they can ever repent. Their presence in our midst is dangerous not only to the poor masses but even the elites.”
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
The researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi have designed a device that can generate electricity from water drops, raindrops, water streams, and even from ocean waves using the ‘triboelectric effect’ and ‘electrostatic induction’.
The electricity generated by the device called ‘Liquid-solid Interface Triboelectric Nanogenerator’ can be stored in batteries for further use.
As per a statement from IIT Delhi, the device consists of specially designed nanocomposite polymers and contact electrodes and can generate a few milliwatt (mW) power, which is sufficient to power small electronic devices like watches, digital thermometers, radio frequency transmitters, healthcare sensors and pedometers. When compared to conventional methods, such as the use of the piezoelectric effect, it can generate significantly more electricity.
“Triboelectric effect is a known phenomenon for a long time, and in this effect, charges are generated when two surfaces are in friction. The best example we see is sparkling lights when we move the blankets or jackets. It is only lately that it has been extensively investigated as a practical alternative for energy harvesting,” said Professor Neeraj Khare from the Department of Physics in IIT Delhi.
Khare and his team at the Nanoscale Research Facility (NRF), IIT Delhi, have been working on harvesting electrical energy from to be wasted mechanical vibrations using the triboelectric effect.
The group has filed an Indian patent on the various aspects of the use of ferroelectric polymer for harvesting mechanical energy including the present device.
The Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology have supported the research work under the NNetRA project.
The IIT Delhi research team also explored the underlying mechanism of the electricity generated when the water drop comes in contact with the solid surface and it was found that saline water drops generate more electricity.
Auto fuel prices in India have maintained stability amidst volatility in global oil prices with crude on the boil again rising sharply for past few days.
The oil marketing companies (OMCs) on Friday kept pump prices of auto fuels petrol and diesel unchanged, the 12th consecutive day of no revision, as they preferred to watch the global oil situation before making any revision in prices.
Accordingly, the price of petrol and diesel remained unchanged at Rs 101.19 and Rs 88.62 per litre in Delhi, as per Indian Oil Corporation, the country’s largest fuel retailer.
In Mumbai, the petrol price is stable at Rs 107.26 per litre on Friday, while diesel rates also remained unchanged at Rs 96.19 a litre.
Across the country as well, petrol and diesel prices remained static on Friday but their retail rates varied depending on the level of local taxes in a particular state.
Fuel prices have been hovering at record levels on account of 41 increases in its retail rates since April this year.
Under the pricing formula adopted by oil companies, rates of petrol and diesel are to be reviewed and revised by them on a daily basis. The new prices becomes effective from morning at 6 a.m.
The daily review and revision of prices is based on the average price of benchmark fuel in the international market in the preceding 15-days, and foreign exchange rates.
But, the fluctuations in global oil prices have prevented OMCs to follow this formula in totality and revisions are now being made with longer gaps. This has also prevented companies from increasing fuel prices whenever their is a mismatch between globally arrived and pump price of fuel.
After touching $74 a barrel mark couple of weeks back and then falling, benchmark Brent crude prices have bounced back to reach closer to $76 a barrel now.
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The Chief Executive Officer of National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, has paid a working visit to some petroleum downstream agencies to familiarise himself with their operations.
Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid and his entourage visited Tema fuel depots enclave to understand their operations and challenges and how those challenges can be addressed.
He visited the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation’s (BOST) Accra Plains Depot, Tema Multi-Product Terminal (TMPT) and Bottling plant, the NPA Tanker yard and the Ridge Energy Depot.
The NPA’s CEO also visited Ghana Gas where he interacted with the Chief Executive, Dr Benjamin K.D. Asante.
Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid and other officials of NPA at Ghana Gas
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Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for petroleum and Mining, John Munyes, has issued notices to terminate contracts issued to six oil and gas exploration companies within the country’s Lamu Basin.
According to media reports, these notices were issued on the 27th of August, 2021, citing failure of the companies to meet their obligations as outlined in their respective petroleum agreements.
The companies are Zarara Oil and Gas, Octant Energy, A-Z Petroleum Products, Simba Africa Rift Energy, Lamu Oil and Gas and Milio/Castac Oil.
It is unclear why the Cabinet Secretary took the decision, however, per section 25 of the Petroleum Act, one of the reasons the Cabinet Secretary may terminate petroleum agreements at the exploration stage would be failure by the exploring company to meet its minimum work and expenditure obligations.
“The Meter Management System was specifically requested by ECG as a solution to current challenges with multiple meter types, procured from a variety of meter vendors, none of which could communicate with the other,'” said Prof Yaa Ntiamoah-Baidu, the MiDA Board Chairman, in a speech read on her behalf by Martin Eson-Benjamin, the MiDA CEO.
She also stated that “the mix of activities under the ECG Financial and Operational Turnaround (EFOT) Project is intended to reduce revenue losses and under-billing and ensure that ECG recovers its operational costs and invests in maintenance and expansion, without additional financial support from the government.”
The System can cover some five million ECG customers.
The Meter Management System comprises 17 Servers in six racks, 40 Point-of-Sale devices, UPSs, laptops, printers, which have been delivered to two Sites; the ECG Project Office and the ECG Legon District Office.
At the moment, 12 prepaid meter types have been enrolled onto the MMS System, with others programmed to join in phases.
The state-of-the-art system, supplied and installed by Messrs. Siemens SA, is equipped with full redundancy, a backup that will enable the System to run at all times.
It has a Primary Site and a Disaster Recovery Site with an online real-time backup capability.
“The MMS System would make a big impact on ECG’s revenue collection efforts,” said Keli Gadzekpo, the Board Chairman of ECG.
The Country Director of Millennium Challenge Corporation, Mr Steven Marma said: “The US$316 million MCC Ghana Power Compact is the U.S. Government’s down payment on a brighter future for Ghana, and the completion of the Multimeter Management System is an important milestone for the Compact Programme.
“The MMS is an IT investment that lays the foundation for improved customer service and revenue mobilisation, modernize ECG’s operations and improves service delivery to everyday Ghanaian citizens. MCC looks forward to ECG’s continued rollout of the system across all regions under ECG operations,” he added.
The Deputy Minister for Energy, Andrew Agyapa Mercer, who spoke on behalf of the Minister for Energy, noted that “as part of the government’s policy pursuits for the electricity distribution sub-sector, we are desirous of strengthening the electricity distribution system to enhance competitive electricity supply and retail services for the ultimate benefit of the consumer.”
Source:www.energynewsafrica.com 
Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid and his entourage visited Tema fuel depots enclave to understand their operations and challenges and how those challenges can be addressed.
He visited the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation’s (BOST) Accra Plains Depot, Tema Multi-Product Terminal (TMPT) and Bottling plant, the NPA Tanker yard and the Ridge Energy Depot.
The NPA’s CEO also visited Ghana Gas where he interacted with the Chief Executive, Dr Benjamin K.D. Asante.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com 