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The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has issued an advisory paper on Ghana’s power sector analyzing basically three key areas including, Power Generation, Power Transmission Challenges, and Power Distribution Challenges.
The Centre is demanding that government take actions on some of the concerns they raised in the paper.
On the issue of power generation, ACEP is concerned that government has not been transparent regarding the renegotiations of the PPAs. ACEP worry that the opaqueness associated with is what has caused the recent judgement debt slapped on Ghana over the termination of the emergency power agreement.
Ghana-Press-Review February 16, 2021 to 10:57 1530 APA – Accra (Ghana) The pre-election mission by ECOWAS team to Benin led by Ghana’s Minister designate for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration and the order to the government of Ghana to pay $137.9 million to Ghana Power Generation Company for terminating a power purchase agreement between the two parties in 2018 are some of the trending stories in the Ghanaian press on Tuesday.
The Graphic reports that the Minister-designate for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, last Thursday led a team of ECOWAS officials to Benin ahead of the presidential election in that country. It is scheduled for April.