Member of Parliament for Bongo and a member of the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament, Edward Bawa, has attributed Ghana’s recent power outages to the financial insolvency plaguing the energy sector.
Despite the Deputy Energy Minister Andrew Egyapa Mercer assuring that power supply challenges have been addressed, including a $10 million disbursement to WAPCo for gas supply, intermittent blackouts persist.
This scenario mirrors the “Dumsor” crisis of 2015 and corresponds with the foresight of Nana Amoasi VII, predicting persistent power challenges stemming from economic constraints.
Bawa’s remarks underscore the government’s challenges in effectively managing finances related to energy and sustaining a reliable power supply.
Speaking in an interview on Citi TV on Saturday, Mr Bawa said “As to whether what is the situation as we have it now, simple and short the sector is broke. That’s all. That’s the situation.
“As we speak now as of yesterday if you look at our peak demand it was 3680 but the available capacity, which means the amount of power that we could supply even if we decided that we were going to have a reserved margin or redundancy was going to be 3363 which means that on the word go even without putting the redundancy there, that was obviously around almost 300 megawatts.”