President John Mahama met with Independent Power Producers (IPPs) on Monday, January 13, 2025, to discuss solutions to the challenges facing Ghana’s energy sector. The meeting aimed to address the difficulties in the sector, including the Electricity Company of Ghana’s 40% commercial and technical losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the meeting, President Mahama emphasized the need for a rapid transformation process to revitalize the energy sector. He acknowledged that this would be a challenging task, requiring clear operations and strong practices to overcome the sector’s difficulties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The president also expressed concerns about the unpaid bills in the energy sector, which he attributed to the previous government’s failure to utilize the Energy Levy funds designated for debt clearance. To address this issue, President Mahama pledged to collaborate with the IPPs and invited additional private sector participation in the energy sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, the president announced a call for international and local shareholders to invest in Ghana’s energy sector, seeking to leverage their expertise and resources to drive growth and development in the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Mahama Meets Independent Power Producers to Address Energy Sector Challenges<\/p>\n
President John Mahama met with Independent Power Producers (IPPs) on Monday, January 13, 2025, to discuss solutions to the challenges facing Ghana’s energy sector. The meeting aimed to address the difficulties in the sector, including the Electricity Company of Ghana’s 40% commercial and technical losses.<\/p>\n
During the meeting, President Mahama emphasized the need for a rapid transformation process to revitalize the energy sector. He acknowledged that this would be a challenging task, requiring clear operations and strong practices to overcome the sector’s difficulties.<\/p>\n
The president also expressed concerns about the unpaid bills in the energy sector, which he attributed to the previous government’s failure to utilize the Energy Levy funds designated for debt clearance. To address this issue, President Mahama pledged to collaborate with the IPPs and invited additional private sector participation in the energy sector.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, the president announced a call for international and local shareholders to invest in Ghana’s energy sector, seeking to leverage their expertise and resources to drive growth and development in the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4486,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions\/4486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}