SPECIAL FEATURES ON GHANA ELECTRICITY
Electricity
is a business owned venture, owned by
the State of Ghana with 100% self-regulatory controlled with oversight by the
Minister responsible for energy in Ghana
also Electricity in Ghana is a vital factor which contributed to the
country’s economic growth.
Demand in Growth
The supply of
electricity in resent time has been struggling to keep up with demand. However
unstoppable demand in growth electricity has stressed the already abused
electricity system.
According to my research,
over 6 percent per year of overpowering demand in growth of electricity as a major
power crisis in 2006/ 2007 which is
estimated to have reduced the growth by one percent with the help of foreign
donors the requirement to support the electricity in retort to the challenges.
Future Perspectives
The National Energy
Policy is to achieve worldwide access by 2020 the Government of Ghana is
operating two programs.
Lack
of Incompetency in Power
There are two ways to
the lack of incompetency in power affecting Ghana and they are low bills which
resulted to the continuing lack of investment and poor quality of service. The
low tariffs also resulted in important shortages of the electricity utility
companies.
Additional
Help
Supplementary
electrification programs is needed to support the National Electricity Service
of Ghana under which communities that are within 20 km from an existing 33kV or
11kV sub-transmission line can qualify for electrification if they can acquire
all the power poles and have a minimum of 30 percent of the houses within the
community wired.
The
Rule
According to ECOWAS
Renewable Energy Policy, The renewable energy policy of the Economic Community
of Western African States (ECOWAS) is a regional document that calls for
achieving renewable energy targets of 19 percent of installed capacity and 12
percent of generation by 2030 excluding large hydro. Law provides the basis for Government
intervention in the energy sector, however it must come directly from the Parliament.
Renewable Energy Act
(2011), The Renewable Energy Act is formed to support the use of renewable
energy technologies to: Increase legion of electricity, to differentiate shades
of electricity supply and to generate electricity in a biologically maintainable
means.
Ways
to Rectification
Employing a provincial lawful
authority and a regulatory organization to develop consistency between the
regional (State by state) and the national renewable power energy policies. Ensuring
each Member of a particular state has a National Renewable power Energy Policy.
Rectification
Requirements
Organizations permit and
acquire all necessities in other to satisfy the need to enjoy a reliable supply
of power electricity, however there are many equivalent schemes that offer related
offer to assure steadfastness. For example the auto-mobile industry rightfully
allows for a spare tire in the design of an auto-mobile to avoid mission failure
in case of a flat tire. Commercial aircraft systems have at least two engines
to ensure they will remain aloft in the event of a single engine failure.
Human systems also
allow for some severances such as two eyes or kidneys to avoid total vision or
renal failure. Similarly, wholesale power systems need redundancies in the generation
and transmission subsystems to assure reliability.
Solution
to Rectification
A well-designed and
reliable power system must have adequate redundancies so that an unplanned
elemental failure such as the outage of a single transmission line, transformer
or generator will not cause a partial or total power outage. This Platform works internationally to extend
energy’s reach in order to fight widespread poverty.
Negative
Channel
In Ghana, the energy
platform is channelled towards improving ways to modern fuels for cooking and
productive uses of energy.
Ghana does not have a
single source of law for its power sector, such as an electricity law. Instead,
the existing legal framework for the power sector has gradually developed over
time as the government established the institutions and state-owned electricity
companies.
Brief
History on Ghana Electricity
According to GridCogh, Just
after the Volta River Development Act established VRA, the Electricity
Corporation Decree (NLCD 125, 1967) revoked the current Electricity Act and
established ECG.[1] The Electricity Corporation Decree made ECG responsible for
all electricity distribution in Ghana, complementing VRA’s role generating and
transmitting all electricity in the country.
The Government created
GridCo, BPA, and NEDCo to complement VRA and ECG in relevant years. However the
Energy Commission Act (ECA) formed the legal structure in other to permit IPPs
to participate in the power sector and to initiate the performaning standards
for the framework in which elevated them to functioning in the power sector and
also, the PURC Act established the legal jurisdiction of the Electricity
division officials.
International
Donor Activities
In the electricity power
sector a large number of donors have constant and pipeline projects. Between the
2007-2013 the largest energy sector project was the Ghana Energy Access and
Development Project (GEDAP) which added to the funding of multilateral and
bilateral donors with the Government.
International
Donor
According to the Oil
and Gas website, the organization of the Donor support proceeds within the
framework of the Contributor Division Group, established under the Multi Donor
Budget Support (MDBS) framework, in which the Energy Subdivision active Assembly
meets every other month to direct the activities within the Division.
Switzerland (Sector Lead in 2013/2014), the World Bank, France (AFD), USA (MCC,
USAID), African Development Bank, Japan (JICA), Germany (incl. KfW and GIZ) and
KOICA. To the extent where they proceed to a Division of labour system. These
are therefore active Donors in the sector group.
Furthermore I believe
that if effectiveness of operations were naturally controls properly the
significant of failure in the electricity platform will however not be visible
to the extent of the economical breakdown to its record, in which because of
its significant in economics of scale that existed in the manufacturing industry,
Greater Energy producers enjoyed huge amount of the production and distribution
of competencies, which has giving the Plant or Generator Company a huge
opportunity to take over the sector even more than it is in the neighbouring
country Nigeria.
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