Ranking Member on the Mines and Energy Committee in Parliament, Hon. John Abdulai Jinapor has said information in the 2022 Electricity Supply Plan proves the claim by the government there is excess capacity to keep the lights on is false.
The 2022 publication was authored by a technical team known as “The Power Planning Technical Committee (PPTC)” inaugurated in 2020 by the Hon. Minister of Energy to among others examine, plan, and make recommendations for the Ghana Power System as per the requirement in Section-7 of the National Electricity Grid Code and Section 2 (2)(c) of the Energy Commission Act 1997 (ACT 541).
Amongst other things, the report makes an astonishing but factual revelation that the nation’s existing generating capacity will not be adequate to serve the projected demand with the required 18% reserve margin.
Having studied the report, John Jinapor has said the ruling NPP government is being dishonest.
“The baseless and unfounded allegations by the NPP Government that, Ghana has excess electricity generation capacity, which the country does not need, leading to the payment of about GHC 17 billion in excess capacity bills, has been displaced with available facts as contained in the recently released 2022 electricity supply plan for Ghana.
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