Ghana is to raise installed electricity generation capacity to 5,000 megawatts by 2016, from 2,845 mw currently, the Deputy Energy Minister, John Jinapor, told media at an energy conference in Turkey.
The country, like many emerging economies, struggles to produce enough power to satisfy growing demand from business and consumers.
Ghana’s fast-growing economy produces oil, cocoa and gold.
Within weeks, Ghana may also resolve a court order to halt building at a gas facility for a pipeline designed to process gas from the offshore Jubilee oil field.
The country would make the pipeline functional by the end of the year, Jinapor said.
The $650 million project has been delayed repeatedly, curbing the country’s oil production capacity.
“We are confident that by the end of the year, the gas pipeline will be functional,” Jinapor said, extending a previous timetable for completion recently set for September.
A high court in Ghana last week ordered the state-run Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas) to stop construction at the plant.
The injunction stops the construction until the government pays compensation for land to local chiefs.
The government hopes that the gas project’s completion will boost power supply and help reduce spending on light crude imports for thermal power generation.
Reuters/NAN.
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