https://citifmonline.com/2017/09/selling-thermal-plants-wont-solve-vras-problems-staff/ Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:18:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.8 https://citifmonline.com/2017/09/selling-thermal-plants-wont-solve-vras-problems-staff/#comment-1078 Tue, 19 Sep 2017 21:21:00 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=354772#comment-1078 massa government of Ghana spends about a $1billion a year in buying oil and gas (which excludes maintenance cost) to power the thermal plants in Ghana whose total installed capacity is 2,192mw. How sustainable is that? Any increase in fuel cost coupled with the 4.4% energy losses by the distribution companies makes it impossible to have cheaper power which we desperately need to drive our industrialisation agenda. A $1bn could be invested in mini and micro hydro decentralised power as well as solar and wind not this uses generators. People, educate yourself a bit before you jump to conclusions in the end we are the ones who suffers. Thermal plants are not sustainable period.

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