General News of Tuesday, 13 April 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comThe current power challenges the country is facing is largely due to failure to invest in power transmission systems after the country successfully ramped up power generation years back. According to Benjamin Boakye who is Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy, ACEP, after the Mahama-era power outages (2011 – 2015), Ghana had managed to scale the power generation barrier but authorities took their eyes off the issue of power transmission. The energy expert, speaking on Citi TV’s Point of View program monitored by GhanaWeb, emphasized the need for government to consider the power system as a chain and to address its challenges holistically. Around 2014 when we had the problem, power consumption was barely 2,000 MW, between 1800 – 2000 MW, that was enough for the transmission system to manage. That has proven to be too much energy for the transmission system to wheel to ECG and subsequently the consumer.

Source: GhanaWeb April 13, 2021 06:45 UTC