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Ghana, according to the designated Minister of Railways, John Peter Amewu has achieved an important milestone in its history by exporting 250 to 300 MW of electricity to its neighboring countries.
Speaking to the Appointments Committee today, Amewu indicated that the country has generated enough power to exceed the demands of citizens and is currently exporting a significant amount of megawatts of electricity to Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin.
“I am pleased to announce to this House that, for the first time in the history of this country, export agreements sometimes exceed the 250 to 300 megawatts that are awarded to the Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Benin and the Republic of Togo.” He said. .
In 2019, the government announced its plans to export electricity to Mali and Niger.
The Akufo-Addo administration explained that the two countries will join West African countries that were already benefiting from Ghana’s energy to help improve the socio-economic conditions of Ghana’s neighboring countries.
Deputy Hohoe, however, explained that the electricity receivers are not sufficiently developed to use all the energy that is delivered, which ends up being wasted and accounting for the financial loss due to the excess energy generated.
“Exporting energy is not like transporting a cargo of crude oil. Unfortunately, most of these countries do not have a developed infrastructure like we have in Ghana.
“So we export energy to the Cote d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso border, but when it gets there, there is no demand and these are some of the limiting factors.”
Although he was hopeful that Ghana could increase its energy exports in the future, he regretted the fact that the infrastructure limitations of the receivers of this exported energy make the process difficult.
“Ghana could increase its exports but the infrastructure is not developed in these countries, so we are limited by the amount of energy that we can export, that is why it returns to us as available and not consumed energy.”
