President John Dramani Mahama has shared insights into his government’s successful efforts to control Ghana’s power crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking at the Jubilee House on January 22, 2025, Mahama explained that his administration took decisive steps to address the impending power supply shortage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Mahama, the previous government’s inability to effectively supervise the energy sector led to a power supply crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, through determination and effort, his government was able to tackle the lack of maintenance at the country’s thermal power plants, which had been neglected by the former government. Additionally, they ensured a steady fuel supply to the thermal plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mahama’s administration made significant strides in increasing Ghana’s power generation capacity, adding over 800MW of power within an 18-month period. This achievement was made possible through the fast-tracking of emergency power plants and the completion of ongoing projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, the Energy Sector Levy and efforts to restructure the legacy debt of power utilities contributed to stabilizing the power situation in Ghana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mahama Reveals Strategies Behind Ghana’s Power Crisis Resolution<\/p>\n
President John Dramani Mahama has shared insights into his government’s successful efforts to control Ghana’s power crisis. <\/p>\n
Speaking at the Jubilee House on January 22, 2025, Mahama explained that his administration took decisive steps to address the impending power supply shortage.<\/p>\n
According to Mahama, the previous government’s inability to effectively supervise the energy sector led to a power supply crisis. <\/p>\n
However, through determination and effort, his government was able to tackle the lack of maintenance at the country’s thermal power plants, which had been neglected by the former government. Additionally, they ensured a steady fuel supply to the thermal plants.<\/p>\n
Mahama’s administration made significant strides in increasing Ghana’s power generation capacity, adding over 800MW of power within an 18-month period. This achievement was made possible through the fast-tracking of emergency power plants and the completion of ongoing projects. <\/p>\n
Furthermore, the Energy Sector Levy and efforts to restructure the legacy debt of power utilities contributed to stabilizing the power situation in Ghana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5260","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\/5260","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=5260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5264,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260\/revisions\/5264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}