SPECIAL FEATURES ON GHANA ELECTRICITY

ELECTRICITY IN GHANA
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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