[ 2015-03-30 ]

Dumsor to be ‘tightened’ temporarily
The current load shedding exercise is expected to
be aggravated in a couple of days as the
country’s major thermal plants shut down,
sources close to the producers have told Citi
News. The gas pressure through the West African
Gas Pipeline at 7pm Monday was 14 Bars, way below
the standard pressure needed to keep the plants in
production. However, the situation improved around
10:30am Monday when the gas pressure at Tema
increased to 29 Bars, according to figures from
the Ghana Grid Company.

Ghana is currently shedding about 500 megawatts of
power daily and the situation could leave Ghana
clinging to less than 800 megawatts of power to
drive domestic, commercial and industrial
activities. It has also emerged that the Volta
River Authority owes the Ghana Gas Company for gas
supplied to the various plants in Takoradi. The
Ghana Gas Company is expected to help Ghana
improve power production by about 540MW when its
Atuabo Gas Project is fully commissioned.

Source - Citifmonline

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