{"id":176754,"date":"2015-12-24T09:57:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T09:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=176754"},"modified":"2015-12-24T09:58:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T09:58:04","slug":"2015-isnt-over-yet-load-shedding-will-be-over-power-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/12\/2015-isnt-over-yet-load-shedding-will-be-over-power-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 isn’t over yet, load shedding will be over – Power Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"
Following concerns that the Ministry of Power may not meet its end-of-year deadline to solve the power crisis, the sector Minister, Kwabena Donkor, has urged Ghanaians to be patient as \u00a02015\u00a0isn’t over yet.<\/p>\n
With the resignation of the Transport Minister<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Dzifa Attivor on Wednesday as a result of the bus branding scandal, attention has \u00a0turned to the Power Minister who\u00a0announced that he would resign if the power crisis persisted<\/a><\/strong><\/span> after 2015\u00a0when he was appointed by President Mahama with only six days until the end of the year.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”KGxjltTtb04jOwehrCmQldx6FLtia0SW”]Dr. Kwabena Donkor, appeared before the Government Assurances Committee in Parliament. earlier on Wednesday to assure Ghanaians that his Ministry was working towards meeting the \u00a0deadline.<\/p>\n However, the power minister, admitted that a number of things could cause complications which could force an extension of the date for about\u00a0a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n “In terms of all mechanical things, you will plan, put in place measure to ensure delivery. But normally in project management, you will have some allowance to make room for slippage and add or take away two weeks. Technically by the end of the year, load shedding should be over but the caveat is that barring any unforseen circumstances. For example the FPSO Nkrumah, which supplies gas to the Atuabo Gas processing plant, should it trip, \u00a0it would mean that we would lose \u00a0about 630 megawatts of power in the Aboadze corridor. It has had a number of trips in the last six months.<\/p>\n Dr. Donkor added that these factors, should they occur, would quickly be resolved and any complications would not be long lasting to the supply of power.<\/p>\n “The good thing is whenever that happens, it’s never taken up to\u00a0a week to bring it back to production. \u00a0if it slips then we have a challenge. If anything untoward happens to the Southern Asogli plant and a few unplanned maintenance stoppages have happened that will also take about a week to repair. Barring any of those, we are on track.”<\/p>\n