Erratic power supply will stabilise soon – Deputy Energy Minister

The erratic power supply in some parts of the country will stabilise within the next few days, Deputy Minister of Energy, William Owuraku-Aidoo, has assured.

 Speaking on Accra based Citifm Breakfast Show yesterday, Mr Owuraku-Aidoo said the state was “looking at just a matter of days to bring this whole problem to an end.”

Some Ghanaians have been experiencing consistent power cuts in recent weeks and have been appealing for some clarity from the state.

The deputy minister explained that challenges with an ongoing peaking exercise “is what is creating the problems that we are encountering right now.”

Describing the encountered problems as unanticipated, he noted the exercise had taken out over 1,000 megawatts from Tema area.

“There is also the issue of a lack of gas because of the cleaning out of the pipelines which supply gas from Nigeria.”

“Unfortunately some of the generation plants that we planned with have encountered some unexpected challenges.”

But so far, he said the peaking exercise had been completed ahead of schedule and will be followed by some analysis.

“The analysis will hopefully come to an end by tomorrow and gas will be introduced somewhere in the beginning of March (2020) and then it will ramp up…until we get the full complement of gas supply to the Tema enclave,” Mr Owuraku -Aidoo said.

Source: citimewsroom.com