The President noted that, with the country’s national electrification rate of 88.8% one of the highest on the continent, the goal is to have full electricity access by the end of this year and ensure that the areas of power generation, transmission and distribution, recieves significant investments towards the provision of reliable and competitively-priced electricity to ensure economic growth.
Whilst acknowledging the challenges that the people of Ashanti Region, and, indeed, of other parts of this country, have had to endure in very recent times over the supply of power, President Akufo-Addo was grateful for the patience of Nananom and the citizenry through the said difficult times and commended the Asantehene, who, graciously, intervened with the authorities of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to release a portion of their land for the construction of this power station and gas pipeline infrastructure, as well as, the Chiefs and people of Anwomaso, and, indeed, all stakeholders who contributed in diverse ways to make this project a reality.
In another show Gleefully, he was proud of the work undertaken by the Volta River Authority (VRA) in bringing the generating units and their associated equipment to Kumasi and commended the Board, Management and staff of VRA for successfully relocating and re-installing the gas turbine units, the related switchyard, balance of plant equipment, control room, cables and all other aspects of the power plant on their own.
“They have demonstrated that Ghanaian engineers, from a publicly-owned institution, can rise up to the task of finding engineering solutions to build our nation.”
Congratulating GRIDCO, ECG and GNPC for the respective roles they have played in bringing this project to fruition, the President found it even more gratifying to note that “the gas transmission infrastructure for this power station was constructed from Prestea to Anwomaso through a collaboration between the Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC) and Genser Energy Ghana Limited, a dynamic Ghanaian-owned energy company.”
He concluded with an appeal to the investor community to take advantage of the improved electricity supply and put up viable commercial structures that would utilise the resources within the middle and northern belts to ramp up government’s industrialisation agenda, thereby accelerating the growth and development of the country.
