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The Black Volta River at Buipe in the Savannah Region has overflown its banks, causing floods in the Buipe township and displacing hundreds of residents. The situation is reportedly caused by the spillage of the Bui Dam into the Black Volta River. Within two weeks, the flood has cut off…

Built on mutual trust for development, bilateral trade volume between Ghana and China peaked at US$9.57billion in 2021 from US$6.67billion in 2017, the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Lu Kun has disclosed. Representing a 12 percent year-on-year increase, China's direct investment also increased by US$15 million, making Ghana, China's largest trading…

Mr Samuel Kofi Dzamesi, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Bui Power Authority (BPA) has called for concerted efforts towards building a climate resilient society to mitigate the impact of climate change in the country. He said the water sector in Ghana was one of the major areas that…

G8 Awarded LOI for the Installation of the Largest Next Generation 65MW Floating Solar system at BUI Hydro Dam in West Africa | 2022-02-22 16:00:00

The Board of Directors of the Bui Power Authority (BPA), managers of the Bui Dam has handed over 54 mechanized fish ponds worth GHC850, 939.95 to some Project Affected Persons (PAPs) in the Bui Dam enclave. The 117 beneficiaries were among the more than 300 fishing population in Bator-Akanyakope, a…

Mr Kofi Dzamesi, the Chief Executive Officer of the Bui Power Authority (BPA), has cut the sod for work to begin on the construction of an eight-unit two-bedroom apartment at Jama, a resettlement community within the Bui Dam enclave of the Savanah Region. The staff housing project, expected to be…

  The Minister of Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has described the current graduated electricity tariffs system as punitive, and therefore does not encourage small-scale industries to use energy to increase production for industrial growth, employment generation and wealth creation. He said in order to address the current punitive system where consumers that use more paid more per the same unit, the ministry had taken advantage of the Energy Sector Recovery Taskforce under a World Bank prog...

705 The Minister of Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has described the current graduated electricity tariffs system as punitive, and therefore does not encourage small-scale industries to use energy to increase production for industrial growth, employment generation and wealth creation. He said in order to address the current punitive system where consumers that use more paid more per the same unit, the ministry had taken advantage of the Energy Sector Recovery Taskforce under a World Bank pro...

LISTEN 22 HOURS AGO The Ministry of Energy has thrown back a tirade at the Minority NDC over the recent power outages in the country. The sector ministry said President Akufo-Addo’s vision for the power sub-sector is to provide “safe, dependable and affordable power to bring relief to Ghanaians and also to serve as a solid base for an industrialised economy”. In furtherance of this vision, the ministry has said it is “working hard to bring it into fruition and remains focused on deli...

  The Ministry of Energy has stated that there is no nationwide load shedding neither has there been an attempt to embark on one. It said outages being carried out in some areas were to allow for the contractors to tie in their works into the existing transmission lines. “It is, therefore, false to claim, as the Minority in Parliament has, that political pressure has been brought to bear on the publishing of a load shedding timetable,” the ministry said in a statement in reaction to a pres...