The Deputy Energy Minister, Herbert Krapa, has assured Ghanaians that the ongoing power outages in the country will soon come to an end.
He stated that President Akufo Addo had personally led financial and operational arrangements to make sure the issue was resolved. He gave this assurance during the commissioning of the Volta River Authority’s 15MWp Kaleo Solar Power plant phase 2 in Kaleo on Wednesday, April 24.
Mr. Krapa who is also the Chairman of the Governing Board of the Electricity Corporation of Ghana however did not provide a specific timeline for when the power crisis would end.
“His Excellency the President [Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo] has personally led arrangements, financial and operational to ensure the current power outages Ghanaians are feeling in the country in a few days will be a thing of the past.”
“He added that his Excellency the President has ensure, led all of us in the power sector to ensure that, we are putting arrangements in place to procure additional fuel to run all our thermal plants and power producing plants run at full capacity,” he added.
The Deputy Energy Minister announced that the ministry has developed a national energy transition framework in response to the worldwide demand for cleaner fuel sources.
The objective of the national energy transition program is to generate 10,000 megawatts of clean energy.
“As a ministry, responding to the call for cleaner sources of fuel, we put together a national energy transition framework…and we have worked with the UN sustainable energy for all to model that transition framework into an investment plan.
“Together with a revised national energy policy, the 10,000 megawatts project that we have put in place, an integrated power sector master plan and a renewable energy master plan, revised nationally determined contributions and also revised energy efficiency regulations, we are confident that Ghana can be able to meet our obligation of producing this 10,000 megawatts of cleaner energy solar wind and also with a strengthened grid that can build the electrons across the country.”