Power crisis to stabilise by July

The current power crisis is likely to improve by July this year, according to persons working in the country's power generation and distribution sector.

According to these sources, the July 2015 prediction for a possible end to the severe load-shedding exercise is based on some emergency power generators and ships that are expected in the country from April.

The forecast by the engineers who spoke to Joy Business on conditions of anonymity is also based on new steam turbine generators that TICO is constructing. The turbines should be connected to the national grid within the next three months they say.

The engineers said water levels at the Akosombo dam is expected to improve from July as the raining season sets in from June.

They, however, blame the current shortfall in the country's generation capacity and limited supply in power on Ivory Coast's inability to provide Ghana with an expected 80 megawatts power. Ghana is currently getting only 20 megawatts from its neighbour.

Ghana needs about 2,040 megawatts of power to adequately supply load requirements, but only 1000 megawatts is currently available.

Ghanaians are enduring a debilitating 24 hours of lights out against 12 hours of light, the worse load shedding schedule in country's history.

Industrial enclaves in the country have also not been spared the load shedding exercise.

SOURCE: .Ghanaweb

How many times are we going to hear this kind of news, For 3 years we have condone darkness as part of our lives, because our leaders never had vision for the future when it comes to power(electricity).

During the Presidency of J.J. Rawlings, We where the once selling power to the Ivory Coast's , but today we are hearing different news. I hope the Ndc are solving this issues with the future in mind, so there wont be a repeat of power(electricity) outages in the future.

phAnt0m DrAcON wrote:During the Presidency of J.J. Rawlings, We where the once selling power to the Ivory Coast's

we were able to do that because the population was smaller and there were lesser people connected to the national grid than there are today.
when I heard their stupid excuse of the water level in the Akosombo dam being the cause I get so livid. Its so annoying to think that we are suffering this nation debilitating load shedding because of water level. There have been times were the water level has gone so high that they drain it causing floods in some communities which result in some deaths. CANT THEY FIND SOME WAY TO FILL THE DAM WHEN ITS GETTING LOW??? the whites would have done this long time if they were in our shoes.

I get the point, what am trying to say is they should have planed for the future instead of relaying on the once we have, knowing very well that the population will increase in future.

When Akosombo dam was made, at the time there were only 3 million Ghanians, but Kwame Nkrumah made it anyway because he had the future in mind, Whatever the rest have done is obviously not enough hence this current "dumsu" situation

people connecting to the national grid a must , and thats what our leader should have known and prepare for. Our leader have simply lost focus