Electricity tariffs are likely to increase between the months of October to December to signal to independent power producers that the country’s energy sector is being managed well; Chief Executive Officer of the Volta River Authority (VRA), Kirk Koffi has announced.
According to Mr Koffi, the move is in the best interest of Ghana; assuring that “things will get better soon”.
It would be recalled that tariffs were increased barely three months ago.
| He further explained that most of the challenges the country was facing in the energy sector were as a result of low inflow of gas from Nigeria and one or two other technical challenges.“These problems are not permanent, they will be over very soon and we should be ok.”In a related development, government is set to contract private gas producers from Nigeria to supply Ghana with gas.This is because gas supply from the Nigerian government’s producer N-Gas has been erratic and below expectation. |