- Ghana to relocate Ameri Thermal Plant
- To be relocated to Kumasi region
- Relocation wasteful and unnecessary, say stakeholders
The Ghanaian Ministry of Energy has approved the relocation of the Ameri Thermal Plant from Aboadze to Anwomaso in Kumasi. This comes following a memo by the Minister of Energy Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh to the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) agreeing to the relocation. The relocation will necessitate the supply of natural gas between 50mmscfd to 75mmscfd. The deadline for the relocation of the plant is September 2021.
Reacting to the relocation approval, Energy and Associates Ghana has described the relocation move as ”very wasteful and unnecessary, at a time government is finding it very difficult to pay debts owed in the energy sector and that deadlines given are overly ambitious”.
”Instead, the government should assist Gridco to place priority on strengthening the transmission infrastructure by upgrading most of the critical loads which are on 161kV lines into 330kV lines, and converting all the radial lines into ring circuits” the memo read.