Reactive Power, essentially refers to the difference between the electricity supplied to customer and the electricity actually converted into useful power. Now, gleaning from one of the recent press releases by Gridco, it stated that, “Our power system has grown in terms of demand. Plausibly, it can be considered also that about 120MW out of the 2,736MW will be the amount of wasted power across the power supply system. In comparison; since 2013, Kenya’s transmission level has been 220KV and then commissioned 400kV Ultra-High Voltage transmission in 2017. Nigeria grid voltage transmission level has remained 330KV and increasing to Ultra-High Voltage.

Source: GhanaWeb April 09, 2021 13:18 UTC