The Executive Secretary of Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), Dr. Shafic Suleman, and a team of staff paid a working visit to the Twin City Energy Power Generation Plant (Amandi) at Aboadze in the Western Region as part of his regional tours to familiarise and create a collaboration for effective regulations.
The Twin City Energy Power Plant is a 200MW combined cycle facility that can run on crude oil and natural gas.
By adding 200MW of baseload power by using 33 mscf/d of natural gas from Ghana’s offshore fields, Twin City Energy is expected to facilitate increased access to affordable and reliable electricity while accelerating the country’s transition to a low-carbon energy system.
Dr. Shafic Suleman expressed gratitude to the Amandi team for welcoming the delegation and urged them to expedite efforts in resolving their technical challenges in order to resume operations. He stressed that it was unjustifiable for Ghanaians to pay for electricity services when power was not being generated.
He also advised Amandi Energy to consider more gas-to-power generation in future, as this is cheaper to sustain in the economy, especially in light of the government’s intention to construct a second Gas Processing Plant (GPP).
However, he applauded the Amandi team for maintaining and operating such a state-of-the-art facility over the years.
The Operations Manager, Josjua-Ravi Kumar, and his team took the team through general functionalities of the plants and ongoing procedures.
According to him, the plant is currently under shutdown due to planned maintenance; but when in operation, it is usually powered by gas through the Ghana National Gas Corporation (GNGC) gas pipeline from Atuabo. The plant can also operate on DFO and LCO.
According to Mr. Kumar, the generation facility has a 24-hour manned control room and an approximately 400MW generation capacity (200 MW gas-to-power and 197 MW LCO-to-power), with potential available to expand capacity by 200MW in future.
Also, due to the integration of CCGT in the plant, power generation efficiency is increased by 49.95 percent, with a dispatch rate of 99 percent and an availability of 93 percent.
Mr. Kumar explained that among the plant’s challenges is the need for an additional power evacuation (transmission) line, besides the one they are currently using, as it is inadequate for the current plant capacity.
Dr. Shafic Suleman and the management staff on Tuesday, 22 April, 2025, also paid a working visit to the Amandi and Early Power at Tema to further strengthen the collaborations between the regulator and utility service providers.
