POWER CRISIS: WE NEED STRONGER TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS-ENERGY EXPERT

The Policy Lead: Climate Change and Energy Transition at Africa Center (ACEP), Charles Ofori Gyamfi says for the country to overcome the power outcry in the country, we need proper and stronger transimission systems.

The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has recommended that government weans itself off the management of the country’s power sector.

The energy think tank’s Policy Lead believes the situation is one of the root cause of the sector’s woes as far as the generation and distribution is concerned.

“It comes down to the reality that we can’t continue to have government managing the power sector,” He indicated on Silver FM's Omanbapa Morning Show with Nana Ampratwum.

The latest Auditor-General’s Report revealed that the Ghana Grid Company Limited was owed over ¢230 million, a chunk of which came from state agencies.

 This comes at a time when consumers in parts of the country have also complained of intermittent power cuts, widely refered to as ‘dumsor.’

GRIDCo has explained that some parts of Ghana will soon experience more intermittent power outages to enable engineers and contractors work on some substation plants and is in talks with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to curate a timetable to allow for the maintenance works from April to July 2021.

However, ACEP believes government’s involvement in the value chain does not help matters as the debt being accumulated on their part could cripple the sector’s finances because “they owe the biggest.”