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‘Dumsor’ will welcome winner of Dec. 7 polls – ACEP

December 6, 2016 10:02 am Add a Comment

Energy sector think-tank, African Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), is predicting a supply deficit in the power sector in 2017 on the back of anticipated shortages in gas supplies to thermal plants. The gas supply shortages will be occasioned by … Read more →

Prez. Mahama couldn’t complete 200 SHS because of dumsor – Anyidoho

November 24, 2016 4:15 pm Add a Comment

Deputy General Secretary of the National democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho has faulted ‘dumsor’ for being a hindrance in the incompletion of the 200 Senior High Schools promised by the Mahama led government. According to him, ‘dumsor’ was the major … Read more →

Power Minister blames rain for recent dumsor

October 25, 2016 6:21 pm Add a Comment

Deputy Power minister John Jinapor has attributed the recent erratic power supply in parts of Accra to the rains.According to him, some of the transmitting lines become vulnerable when they are hit by the storm during heavy rains.Parts of Accra … Read more →

Finance Minister chastised by Minority MPs for ‘swerving’ dumsor

July 25, 2016 7:46 pm Add a Comment

Some minority members of parliament have chastised Finance Minister Seth Terkper, for not giving clear indications as to how government will be tackling the worsening energy crisis, in his presentation of the mid-year supplementary budget to Parliament on Monday, July 25. … Read more →

Dumsor collapsing Churches…Pastors frustrated

July 22, 2016 9:02 am Add a Comment

Ghanaian pastors have added their voices to the worsening continuous electricity crisis in the country, saying it is burdening them with additional administrative cost to run the churches. “There are many churches at the verge of collapse and the revenue … Read more →

NPP will fix dumsor – Boakye Agyarko

July 13, 2016 1:43 pm Add a Comment

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) plans to establish a statutory body responsible for liquidity management system in the energy sector to ensure that the sector is self-sustaining and self-financing to avoid the current frightening debts collapsing the sector. The statutory … Read more →

VRA’s contingency analysis reveals – No end to dumsor

June 28, 2016 3:57 pm Add a Comment

Electricity supply bottlenecks are expected to persist throughout 2016 despite government’s steps to resolve the power crisis. This is as a result of planned maintenance, fuel constraints of thermal power plants, as well as inadequate generation reserve capacity. A contingency … Read more →

Dumsor hits Kotoka International Airport

June 13, 2016 10:13 am Add a Comment

Passengers at the arrival hall of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) were on Saturday afternoon left in total darkness for close to an hour after power supply to certain parts of the airport went off. The power cut which happened … Read more →

Dumsor: Mines spend $1bn in 3 yrs

June 10, 2016 8:04 am Add a Comment

Within a space of three years, the mining industry in Ghana has spent a whopping $1.2billion in procuring electricity from the national grid for its operations, Business Finder’s checks have revealed. In 2015 alone, the industry coughed $314million to pay … Read more →

Ghana buys 180mw from Ivory Coast to tackle dumsor

June 1, 2016 4:47 pm Add a Comment

Despite sinking millions of dollars into acquiring new generation capacity, especially expensive emergency power plants, to fix the power crisis which has hiked electricity tariffs, Ghana is still importing 180 megawatts of electricity from Ivory Coast to close deficits. Ghana … Read more →