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– GRIDCO says Saturday’s power outage is due to gas supply problems
– The utility company says all problems have been resolved and power has been restored
– Ghana’s AMERI has ended so far, posing threats of imminent erratic power supply
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Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCO) says the occurrence of power outages in Accra, Tema and Kumasi on Saturday was due to challenges with supplying gas to power plants.
In a press release, GRIDCO assured the consuming public that the situation is resolved. Already. Saturday’s national blackout has resurrected debates about Ghana’s potential slide into a new era of power outages.
This follows the expiration of a recent power agreement under the Mahama administration. So far, the total cancellation of energy projects has caused Ghana more than $ 100 million in legal debt.
If you don’t get the COVID vaccine, you become a problem for yourself – GHS“… at approximately 6:55 p.m. on Saturday, February 27, 2021, gas supply problems, emanating from offshore fields, led to a loss of power supply totaling approximately 1,000MW. To avoid a complete shutdown of the system, a power outage was carried out, affecting most of the country, including Accra, Tema and Kumasi. Gas supply has been resumed upstream and power to the affected areas will be restored shortly, ”the notice said.
GRIDCO blames Saturday’s blackout on gas supply problems (File photo)
Source: UGC
In other news
The BOOT (Build, Own, Operate and Transfer) agreement between the government of Ghana and AMERI on the 250MW thermal power plant ends on January 31.
Under the agreement, the plant will be taken over by the Ghanaian government through the Volta River Authority. As of September 2020, AMERI wrote to the government about the terms of the contract and its willingness to deliver the plant.
“I can confirm that the government has not yet responded to the letter. Ghana’s debt to AMERI (over $ 32 million) has not been paid, no technical audits have been conducted, and VRA staff have not been trained to operate the thermal plant. In economic terms, it will be in our interest to own and operate the plant ”, revealed an economist, Eugene Bawell, on his Facebook page.
Ghana receives 600,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccineOne very worrying thing is that the same agreement with AMERI caused Boakye Agyarko to be fired as Minister of Energy.
There is already a possibility that Ghana will experience some power outages this year. The Independent Power Producers (IPP) warned to end their services if the government does not pay them the debt of more than 150 million dollars.
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