{"id":138820,"date":"2024-01-14T06:02:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T06:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/14\/power-outages-occurring-because-energy-sector-is-broke-edward-bawa\/"},"modified":"2024-01-14T06:02:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T06:02:38","slug":"power-outages-occurring-because-energy-sector-is-broke-edward-bawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/14\/power-outages-occurring-because-energy-sector-is-broke-edward-bawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outages occurring because energy sector is broke \u2013 Edward\u00a0Bawa \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Edward Bawa, MP for Bongo and member of the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament has linked Ghana\u2019s recent power outages to the financial insolvency of the energy sector.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite Deputy Energy Minister Andrew Egyapa Mercer\u2019s assurance that the power supply issues have been resolved and a $10 million disbursement to WAPCo for gas supply, intermittent blackouts persist.<\/p>\n<p>This situation echoes the \u201cDumsor\u201d crisis of 2015 and aligns with Nana Amoasi VII\u2019s prediction of ongoing power challenges due to economic constraints.<\/p>\n<p>Bawa\u2019s comments highlight the government\u2019s struggle to manage energy-related finances and maintain a stable power supply.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on\u00a0<strong>The Big Issue\u00a0<\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>Citi TV\u00a0<\/strong>on Saturday, Mr Bawa said \u201cAs to whether what is the situation as we have it now, simple and short the sector is broke. That\u2019s all. That\u2019s the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>citinewsroom.com <\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Bawa, MP for Bongo and member of the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament has linked Ghana\u2019s recent power outages to the financial insolvency of the energy sector. 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