- The Ghana Minister of State at the Ministry of Energy, Herbert Krapa, has assured the nation that the government will continue to work assiduously to keep a steady electricity supply.
- The engineers briefed the minister and his entourage at each plant and took them around the plant.
The Ghana Minister of State at the Ministry of Energy, Herbert Krapa, has assured the nation that the government will continue to work assiduously to maintain a steady electricity supply for domestic, commercial, and industrial use.
He said the ministry had been proactive and had kept constant touch with the players in the energy sector so that challenges were nipped in the bud to ensure that power generation was sufficient and unceasing, noting that “constant electricity supply is my priority”.
Mr Krapa assured journalists in answer to a question when he paid a working visit to the Aboadze Energy Enclave in Sekondi in the Western Region.
Accompanied by technocrats from the ministry, Mr Krapa visited the West African Gas Pipeline Company Limited (WAPCo), Amandi Energy Plant and the Volta River Authority (VRA) and its different plants, the Tiko, the Taka, as well as the T3.
The minister said he was in the enclave “to see these facilities for myself, engage the engineers, understand if there are some issues so that when we are back in Accra, we can work around these issues to ensure that power generation is sufficient”.
At each of the plants, the minister and his entourage were briefed by the engineers and taken around the plant. Mr Krapa commended the management and engineers at the various plants for running the systems that kept the lights on. “Ghanaians rely on us, count on us to make sure that the lights are on, and it comes from power generation,” he said.
The Ghana Gas processing plant at Atuabo underwent a 17-day planned maintenance shutdown to replace and maintain some of its components.
Although the shutdown was two days old as of last Friday, it had not affected the power supply because alternative arrangements had been made to cater for the deficit. While discussing the shutdown, Mr Krapa said, “Today is the second day of Ghana Gas’s planned maintenance outage. The lights are on across the country because of the planning that went into the process.”
He explained that, fingers crossed, no challenge was anticipated from ENI, the other gas supplier, and expressed confidence that power generation would be stable for distribution across the country. Answering questions about the shutdown of Amandi in November this year for major maintenance, Mr Krapa explained that all these maintenance outages were usually planned a year ahead.