VRA Chief Executive Discusses the Latest Developments in Ghana Energy Sector

“As far as the power crisis is concerned, it started in 2012 when we had difficulties with the gas supply from Nigeria. That was the genesis of the power difficulties that we had and it went on for a while until the then government intervened in 2014, 2015, and 2016. They brought in some emergency solutions with what we call emergency power plants.”

“That helped alleviate the power crisis. Today as we speak, we are not in a power crisis mode. Since January we have not had any rotating outages. Any time that you go for a short term solution; it tends to be very expensive. We have had power plants that are so expensive to run but because we need them we continue to operate them. Once the power crisis is over we will focus on the future. We need power plants that produce power competitively and give the chance for our industries to produce competitively and compete with others in the global space or even just in the sub region. We are focusing on long term power plants now, not just short term solutions but the long term power requirements of the country to help with the economic growth,” explains Emmanuel Antwi-Darkwa, Chief Executive of Volta River Authority (VRA).