government will not sell the ECG<\/a><\/strong><\/span> despite perceived challenges in the institution which some experts have said could be rectified if privatized.<\/p>\nBut speaking at the lecture organized by the University of Ghana\u2019s College of basic and Applied Sciences (CBAS) the former chief director of the erstwhile Ministry of Energy, Prof Akabzaa insists Ghanaians must support the re-structuring of ECG or the power crisis will persist.<\/p>\n
He argued that \u201cthe mother of all problems of the power sector is certainly the absence of a credible off-taker for generator electricity. Generating companies whether private or public expect prompt payment for the electricity they generate.”<\/p>\n
Prof Akabzaa noted that ECG is the main off-taker of all electricity generated by VRA and IPP and are supposed to account for all revenue, meet their investment requirements and pay for the cost of transmission and generation.<\/p>\n
“ECG in charitable terms is not perceived a credible off-taker, it can best be described as a harder header malignant tumor \u00a0in the electricity value chain. ECG is a mere…entity with a large top heavy over centralized organization with significant weaknesses in its management, corporate governance\u00a0 and institutional culture that call for profound change,\u201d he added.
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