[ 2015-11-28 ]

Power Minister Dr Kwabena Donkor

Kwabena Donkor Can’t Increase Tariff - PURC
The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC)
has downplayed remarks made by Power Minister, Dr.
Kwabena Donkor that consumers should embrace
themselves for realistic tariff.

Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen Friday,
Communications Director of the Commission, Nana
Yaa Jantuah says her commission is the only outfit
to decide on realistic tariff and not the Power
Ministry.

“It is not in the position of Dr. Kwabena
Donkor and his ministry to decide whether we
should embrace ourselves for realistic tariff or
not and so I find it hard to understand why he
(Kwabena Donkor) be emphatic about the tariff
adjustment” she stated.

Dr Kwabena Donkor at a stakeholders’
meeting on local content for the power sector in
Takoradi on Thursday urged consumers of
electricity to brace themselves for realistic
tariffs because cheap power from hydro will no
longer be available.

He said the only way to sustain the business of
power generation was to produce power above the
cost of generation in order to break even.

Dr Donkor observed that it would be difficult to
sustain energy generation, transmission and
distribution if power was produced and sold at a
loss.

“To generate power, the country buys light
crude and gas at the international market price
and pays in dollars, yet billing is done in
cedis” he said.

But Nana Yaa Jantuah said PURC is an independent
organization and therefore do not decide on tariff
with government, since they work with realistic
figures.

Nana Yaa Jantuah who claims to have no idea what
the realistic tariff indicated that leaders of the
commission are in a crisis meeting to determine
the right tariff for its consumers.

“We have not met with Kwabena Donkor and so
we don’t know where the information comes
from. We are independent and so we don’t
work with government. We will communicate with the
public when we are ready,” she insisted.

Source - Adomfm

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