25 MW pilot power plant will utilize Isopentane gas as a fuel source New plant will add equivalent power needed to supply more than 100.000 Ghanaian homes TM2500 proven technology will provide secure, flexible and reliable power New TM2500 order will further expand existing fleet...
  25 MW pilot power plant will utilize Isopentane gas as a fuel source New plant will add equivalent power needed to supply more than 100.000 Ghanaian homes TM2500 proven technology will provide secure, flexible and reliable power New TM2500 order will further expand existing fleet...
Government has up to September 6, to select a concessionaire to manage the state-owned Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) under the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact II. Mr. Kenneth James Miller, the Resident Country Director of the MCC, said: “We have September 6 this year for the Government of Ghana...
The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) says it will soon start the export of some 50 megawatts of electricity to Burkina Faso once work on the interconnection lines has been completed. Mr Frank Okyere, the Systems Control Manager at GRIDCo, who announced this, said the supply arrangement with Burkina Faso could...
Unannounced house-to-house checks by officials from the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) saved the company some GH₵50million on power thefts last year. The sweeping exercise, which is an ongoing system losses reduction intervention, saw officers of the company visiting residential apartments to fish out illegal power consumers. “We went about communities...
The Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL), Petroleum Commission of Ghana and Ghana Ports and Harbour Authority (GPHA) Takoradi have expressed confidence in curbing the menace of illegal bunkering that has damaged the country’s oil and gas. After an inspection by a delegation from the Petroleum Commission at the US$15m Marine...
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA), has expressed displeasure at some groups’ decision to demonstrate against recent increases in prices of petroleum products at the pump by some oil marketing companies. Following reports of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) and Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)’s intended demonstration this week,...
Government has launched a public register of petroleum contracts, agreements, authorisations and permits in a bid to enhance transparency and accountability in the upstream oil and gas sector. The register, which was curated by senior staff of the Petroleum Commission, is hosted via a web portal and presently contains 17...
Fiscal policy think-tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), has commended plans by government to hedge the country’s oil imports as part of moves to ensure some form of price stability. Speaking at a press conference in Accra, Prof. Newman Kusi-Executive Director of the institute, said the development is a...
As part of the Energy Ministry’s effort to conserve energy, a total number of 12 million LED lamps will be distributed throughout the country under a cost-recovery credit programme to be operating through a local bank, a Parliamentary report has revealed. According to a report of the Select Committee on...