Engineers working on the two power ships earmarked to help solve the power crisis that has bedevilled the nation are poised to complete the project on time.
Some selected Ghanaian journalists have been touring Lebanon to see the power ship built by Karpowership of Turkey at the cost of $700 million.
The trip, which will take them to Istanbul in Turkey, is being sponsored by the manufacturing company.
Karpowership is the same company constructing the power barge for the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
But the company says it is not an emergency power barge because it is not part of the programme.
“We don’t know where this emergency thing is coming from,” an official of the power company, Patrick O’Driscoll, told journalists in Beirut yesterday.
He explained that his outfit does not deal in emergency supplies, indicating that they are designed to feed into the grid of their respective customers.
The company also dismissed reports that the barges were expected in Ghana by April, wondering where the reports were coming from.
The Power Minister, Dr Kwabena Donkor, had told journalists early this year that emergency power barges were expected from Turkey to cushion the crisis that is running down businesses and causing deaths.
Mr O’Driscoll said the Karpowership has a power purchase agreement with the Electricity Company of Ghana and is working within the time frame of the pact.
The ECG signed the 10-year power deal with the Turkish company last year to deliver 450 megawatts of power to boost the ailing power sector which appears to defy all solutions.
The barges are to bridge the gap of Ghana’s energy needs and bring to an end the power crisis which has come to be known and accepted as dumsor-dumsor.
From Fortune Alimi, Beirut, Lebanon
Via: -Daily Guide
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