ACEP issues advisory to gov t to save country from dumsor Listen to article
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.
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A Veteran economist, Mr Kwame Pianim, has advised the government to use tomorrow’s presentation of the 2021 Budget Statement to tell Ghanaians the true state of the economy.
He explained that if the government did that, it would help manage the expectations of the people about what the state could offer them.
In an interview with the Daily Graphic last Tuesday, the statesman and investment consultant said the presentation of the policy document offered the government the best opportunity to be candid and unequivocal with the citizenry that “2021 is not going to be easy”.
“Ghanaians need to know that 2021 is going to be a difficult year. The government needs to be candid that our resources are short, and that there is less it can do in terms of support,” he said.
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Energy Minister Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has dispelled suggestions of a return to the days of constant power outages, also know as ‘dumsor’, following erratic power supply in the last few days.
After last Sunday’s nationwide blackout, the Ghana Grid Company Limited, (GridCo) explained it was due to a challenge in the power system.
Government has since come under intense criticism with several power consumers expressing outrage over the situation, especially with a few reports of similar episodes in parts of Accra on Monday.
A former Director of Public Affairs at the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), Nana Yaa Jantuah, wants government to come clean on the country’s current power situation.