{"id":391905,"date":"2018-01-16T13:45:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T13:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=391905"},"modified":"2018-01-16T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:26:14","slug":"mutawakilu-demands-answers-on-ndcs-solar-rooftop-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/mutawakilu-demands-answers-on-ndcs-solar-rooftop-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutawakilu demands answers on NDC’s solar rooftop project"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minority Spokesperson on Energy, Adams Mutawakilu, has asked the government to clarify if it has abandoned the Mahama government’s solar rooftop project for small businesses.<\/p>\n

John Mahama’s then National Democratic Congress government had targetted the setting up of 200,000 rooftop solar projects for small businesses and residential users.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”hSzi6OKQUduYiBsOcp2Plvu8NvS5h0gG”]The status of the project is unclear, and the NDC MP, speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong>, questioned if the solar rooftop project would not rather provide better consumer relief than the recently announced<\/a><\/strong><\/span> average of a 14 percent reduction in electricity tariffs for non-residential users.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mutawakilu noted that, the solar project also targeted small businesses like tailors and hairdressers, which President Akufo-Addo announced were to be the immediate beneficiaries of the tariff reduction.<\/p>\n

During then-President Mahama’s State of the Nation Address in 2016, he indicated that “several small and medium enterprises have been provided with rooftop solar following my announcement of a target of 200,000 rooftop solar projects for small businesses and residential users.”<\/p>\n

Mr. Mutawakilu said the solar project, “by the end of 2015 covered about 1,000 customers where solar rooftops are mounted on these hairdressers\u2019 shops so that, at the end of the day, they don\u2019t depend on the national grid, thereby giving the relief.\u201d<\/p>\n

“So we would like to know government\u2019s position on that. Have they cancelled it? If they have cancelled it, is it actually benefiting compared to the solar rooftops where they will no more depend on the national grid and they don\u2019t pay any electricity bills? Which of these will be better? Government should state its position. If they are still going on with it, they should let us know. If they have abandoned it, they should let us know,\u201d the MP stated.<\/p>\n

Non-residential classifications<\/strong><\/p>\n

The President, in his well-received\u00a0tariff reduction announcement, revealed that barbers will have tariffs reduced by 18 percent; 15.7 percent for hairdressers and beauticians, and for tailors, 9.8 percent.<\/p>\n

Following this,\u00a0Mr. Mutawakilu also questioned the basis of specific reductions for specific non-residential groups in light of the fact the\u00a0Public Utilities Regulatory Commission [PURC] had six broad consumer groups;\u00a0residential, non-residential, special load tariff\u00a0(low voltage),\u00a0special load tariff\u00a0(medium voltage),\u00a0special load tariff\u00a0(high voltage) and high voltage mines.<\/p>\n

“We have not reclassified them to individuals such as barbers, tailors and hairdressers,” the NDC MP remarked.<\/p>\n

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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