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TICO Completion Will Increase Power Production – VRA

The VRA says the completion of the TICO plant in Takoradi will increase the generation of power.

President John Mahama with some officials of TICO

The Volta River Authority (VRA) has disclosed that although it has been receiving gas from Atuabo since November 2014, it is still waiting for the completion of the Takoradi International Company (TICO) thermal plant to augment electricity production.

The VRA’s Public Relations Officer, Sam Fletcher, on Eyewitness News said: “Gas in itself does not produce electricity. Gas has to go through some machine to give us electricity and at this moment, that machine [TICO] is not available.”

The Atuabo Gas Plant has begun commercial production of gas and is currently supplying the VRA with 80 million standard cubic feet (mscf) of gas. In August last year, the VRA told Government Assurances Committee (GAC) of Parliament that gas from Atuabo will not end power rationing in the country.

The Authority said that gas is serving as a substitute to the crude oil used in power generation and therefore does not necessarily increase the amount of power to be generated.

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Fletcher explained that his outfit is expected to receive an additional 40 million standard cubic feet from Atuabo which will be used on the gas turbine – TICO machine. “So technically, we are waiting for the TICO machine that they are working on to come and make use of that gas,” he said.

He discounted the perception in the public domain that Ghana Gas is producing gas at a commercial quantity but the VRA is unable to use it.

Source: Citifmonline

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