Atuabo Gas To Shut Down For 10 Days
Ghana Gas Company Limited is to shut down the Atuabo gas processing plant for 10 days. The shut down to start from Wednesday, August 31 to help carry out some routine maintenance works on the...
Tag: Volta River Authority
Look Here, Tarzan, Akufo-Addos Ride Is Not Your Business!
I don’t know by what measure Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby presumed to carp Nana Akufo-Addo for supposedly riding on the coattails of former President John Agyekum-Kufuor. But it well appears to me...
Complete Biography & Profile of Dr Kwabena Duffuor, Former Minister of Finance and Economic Planning
Dr. Kwabena Duffuor, an economist by profession is a native of Kumawu in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He is married with five children. Education He attended Prempeh College where he obtained his...
Gov’t to Pay US$130m to Cede T3 Plant to AMERI
It has emerged that government is tied to commit a whopping sum of 130 million dollars to AMERI on the planned ceding of the T3 plant in the Aboadze thermal enclave.
The Minority Spokesperson on...
VRA Management Side With Power Ministry; Insists Staff Strike Over
The management of the Volta River Authority (VRA) appears to be at odds with its staff as it has come out to say its workers are not striking in protest of the planned ceding of the Aboadze T3 plant...
VRA Management Side With Power Ministry; Insist Staff Strike Over
The management of the Volta River Authority (VRA) appears to be at odds with its staff as it has come out to say its workers are not striking in protest of the planned ceding of the Aboadze T3 plant...
Power Minister Engages VRA Management, Staff Over Agitation
The Power Ministry is expected to engage the management and staff of the Volta River Authority (VRA), Thursday.
Deputy Power Minister, John Jinapor, says the meeting will afford the Ministry...
AMERI ‘Swallows’ VRA
Agitated staff of the Volta River Authority (VRA) have protested against government’s decision to cede three assets of the power generating company to external parties.
The assets, which include...
Ignore Jinapor, We’Re Still on Strike
Staff of the Volta River Authority (VRA) have insisted they are still protesting the Power Ministry’s plans to cede the Aboadze T3 plant to AMERI.
The Deputy Power Minister, after engaging the...
Reconsider Decision to Cede T3 Plant to AMERI – ACEP to Gov’T
Africa Centre for Energy Policy has called on government to reconsider its decision to cede the Takoradi 3 Thermal Plant to AMERI.
"We recognize the efforts of VRA and its Engineers over the past...
Agreement to Cede VRA Assets to AMERI, Others Suspended
The Power Ministry has suspended agreement with three external parties over some assets of the Volta River Authority (VRA) Thursday.
The decision was arrived at after a meeting between the Ministry...
Dumsor Will Soon Vanish From Our Vocabulary
“Dumsor,” the term most people use to describe the erratic power supply that has hit the country in recent years, will soon vanish from the Ghanaian vocabulary, the acting Minister of Power, Mr...
West African Gas Pipeline Company Dismisses $30m Payment to N-Gas
The West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo), has rejected claims that the government has paid some 30 million dollars as part payment of the over 100 million dollars debts owed the company.
This is...
West Africa Gas Pipeline Cuts Supply to Ghana over Unpaid Bills
The West African Gas Pipeline Company (Wapco) said on Tuesday it had suspended the flow of gas from Nigeria to Ghana over unpaid bills by the Ghana government.
Ghana’s state power producer Volta...
VRA Gas Supplier N-Gas Shut down Supply Due to over $166.3 Million Debt
N-Gas, the main supplier of gas to Ghana's Volta River Authority (VRA), through the West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP), has shut down supply due to the indebtedness of over $166.3 million.
Speaking to...
Ghana to Build a $1.5 Billion Coal Power Plant at Ekumfi Aboano in the Central Region
Ghana is to build a $1.5 billion coal power plant at Ekumfi Aboano, in the Ekumfi District of the Central Region, beginning this second quarter.
The 2,000 megawatt power plant project is being...
No More Dumsor – Load Shedding Comes to an End in Ghana – Power Ministry
The Ministry of Power has announced an end to load shedding in a statement released on Wednesday December 30. The three-paragraph statement signed by Kweku Sersah-Johnson, Head of Public Affairs, for...
Ghana’s Akosombo Dam Faces Shutdown
The easing electricity crisis in the country may relapse as the Akosombo Hydro generating plant faces a possible shutdown due to a drastic drop in the water level.
Water levels in the Volta Lake...
Dumsor Gets Worse – VRA Shuts down Power Plants over GHC1.3Billion Debt
The Volta River Authority (VRA) has shut down all of its thermal plants at Tema due to the company’s inability to buy fuel to power them.
The company, according to Accra-based Joy FM, is riddled...
Ghana News Today October 27 – Today’s Front News Headlines Summary
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250MW POWER PLANT ARRIVES
The Volta River Authority at the weekend received a 250-megawatt plant from Africa and Middle East Resource Investment (AMERI) based in Dubai to augment the...