The much awaited 225 Megawatt Karpower barge has been connected to the national grid, producing 220 megawatts of electricity to Ghanaian households and industries – an official statement from the company, Karpower has revealed. The Powership is expected to generate high voltage electrical energy at one of the lowest prices for thermal power generation. The … Read more
The easing electricity crisis in the country may relapse as the Akosombo Hydro generating plant faces a possible shutdown due to a drastic drop in the water level. Water levels in the Volta Lake which supplies the dam keep falling drastically due to the harmattan season. As of Friday, December 11, the water level in … Read more
The Volta River Authority (VRA) has shut down all of its thermal plants at Tema due to the company’s inability to buy fuel to power them. The company, according to Accra-based Joy FM, is riddled with debts amounting to several billions of Ghana Cedis. Sources say the VRA has borrowed as much as GHC1.3 billion … Read more
A month to end the power crisis as Ghanaians were promised, President John Mahama appears to have shifted the goal post saying the crisis (dumsor) would end before the 2016 general elections. The president gave the extended time when he was speaking in Tamale on Saturday, indicating that it could not be a campaign massage … Read more
The Minority in Parliament has mocked the 2016 budget delivered in Parliament on Friday by the Minister of Finance, Mr Seth Terkper. Immediately after the Minister finished reading the budget, the Minority members, who had occasionally interrupted his speech with boos and chants, whipped put placards with the inscription ‘Dead Goat Budget’. As at the … Read more
Ghana is “almost at the end” of the energy crisis that has hit the country for nearly three years, Power Minister Dr Kwabena Donkor has declared. Speaking at a ceremony to set sail a 225-megawatt power barge from Turkey to Ghana, the minister said: “We have gone through a temporary period of power challenges but … Read more
On 17 October 2014, Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr. Mahama Ayariga, announced that Ghana is ready to stage the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) competition slated for January and February 2015. The original host, Morocco has officially written to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) saying it is no longer interested in hosting the … Read more
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has intensified its load shedding exercise in the southern part of the country. According to the Public Relations Officer of the ECG, William Boateng, some 200 megawatts of power was shed on Thursday, the highest in a while. The increase in shedding is expected to continue in the coming … Read more
Ghana’s power problem is set to worsen if the water levels at the Akosombo Dam do not rise in the coming days. Citi News analysis shows that the water level in the dam has been reducing steadily over the past few months and may result in the shutting down of the plant or a massive … Read more
Although power supply in the country over the past two weeks has improved tremendously which certainly has brought to an end the punishing load shedding exercise, government is said to be reluctant in officially announcing an end to the ‘dumsor dumsor’ phenomenon. Sources close to the country’s power production and distribution sectors disclosed that though … Read more