- Mr Ebenezer Kofi Essienyi, the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), received a four-member team delegation from ERERA.
- Both Heads of Institutions discussed issues of mutual interests relating to the power sector in the region.
Mr Ebenezer Kofi Essienyi, the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), during a courtesy call from ERERA led by the Chairman, Mr Laurent Tossou, at the GRIDCo headquarters in Tema, called on ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERERA) to speed up the approval process of the ECOWAS Regional Transmission Tariff. He said it was to enable all stakeholders, especially transit countries, involved in the regional trade in electricity to be appropriately compensated. He noted that the absence of an approved transmission tariff had created bottlenecks that impeded regional power trade flows.
The members of the four-team ERERA delegation included; Regulatory Council Member, Dr Haliru Dikko, the Head of Administration and Finance, Mr Ofosuhene Apenteng-Takyiako, and the Communication Officer, Mr Uwem Thompson. Mr Tossou informed GRIDCo’s Chief Executive of the imminent launch of the second phase of the regional electricity market. He requested a deeper collaboration with the company, considering its experience and strategic relevance to the development of the market.
Both Heads of Institutions discussed issues of mutual interests relating to the power sector in the region. These included renewable energy, harmonization of national legal texts, data collection, infrastructural challenges, and capacity-building programmes for power sector practitioners. ERERA is mandated to regulate cross-border trade in electricity in West Africa. As part of its functions, ERERA is to approve critical documents for developing the regional power market, while GRIDCo creates and promotes the national grid to ensure competition in Ghana’s wholesale power market.