The Possibility of Load Shedding Is Very High - Power Ministry

The Deputy Minister for Power, John Jinapo revealed to CitiFM that the country may experience power crisis in the next two weeks.


According to him, the expected load shedding may result from their decision to rest some hydro plants, which will reduce the power generation capacity.

“We are going to have technical meeting and we will take it from there. The exact impact I am unable to tell now until we finish that meeting. But clearly we must protect the integrity of the hydro dam. You can run them for a period of time but you can’t risk running all of them beyond a certain period.

In the next few weeks, it is a tight situation for us and we can have some deficit. It is very likely we will have deficit. It’s likely.

As tough as the decision may be, if it is the right decision, we won’t hesitate to take the right decision. I prefer to rest the dams and some of the turbines for the next two weeks than to risk running them for the next two weeks for whatever expediency and then have a major problem ahead. I think that we should also think long-term and so we will take the right decision. We wouldn’t compromise the integrity of the dam.


I did indicate that from the power sector, we have put in all the mechanisms. All the machinery to ensure that we resolve it. We have more than we need in terms of generation capacity. Until we control our fuel, until we bring all those Gas fields or at least those that can fire the thermal plants on, we still have a challenge." Mr Jinapor revealed.

Why are there so many conflicting reasons? Government promised us a dumsor free year. Even the President affirmed the promise in Parliament a few weeks ago.

Last December, government increased the cost of electricity and introduced new taxes in the petroleum sector all in a bid to improve power generation. We are yet to attain that. Ghana needs healing. God bless our homeland!