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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 programme and had engaged the PURC to address the situation. Dr Prempeh, flanked by a Deputy Minister fo...
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 programme and had engaged the PURC to address the situation. Dr Prempeh, flanked by a Deputy Minister f...
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 delivering this important mandate” and will, thus, “not be drawn into a needless war of words that t...
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 press conference by the Minority in Parliament last Wednesday. Context At its press conference last Wedn...