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Energy challenges not over - Mahama
This is in spite of assurances he gave during his state of the nation address that his government had overcome the four-year old crisis following a fairly stable power supply since January.
President Mahama
Ghana for the past three years has been experiencing interruption to electricity supply which has collapsed several businesses across the country.
The situation seemed to have normalised since December 2015 when government imported two power ships to augment the country’s current power supply, as well as, some plants from Ameri Power.
However, parts of the country have began experiencing interruption to electricity supply since the start of last two weeks, with Ghanaians having suspicions that the country could fall back into the regime of 'dumsor'.
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Speaking on the development on Monday, President Mahama said that Ghana is still facing some energy shortfalls due to lack of gas.
“Our energy challenges are not over but at least for now, we have been able to fix the problem, we are able to match demand and supply, even though we are living dangerously because our redundancy is small, not because we don’t have the generating capacity but because several of our generating assets are gas-based. We are not able to get enough gas to feed them,” Mahama told a meeting of the Council of State.“For instance if you take the eastern generating area which is Tema, we have almost 600MW of gas-based generation but are not getting gas through the West African Gas pipeline to be able to run them. One reason is because Nigeria’s demand for gas is increasing and there is regular destruction of the gas infrastructure and so we get a certain volume today, tomorrow it drops so you cannot predict how you are running those assets,” he added.
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