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President cuts sod for world’s largest LPG-fired power plant

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  • saq 6 years ago

    Good!
    The fuel mix make the project very complex. We do not believe the fuel mix can be efficiently maintained.

    North Ghana and coal is viable option. The railway to northern Ghana can carry all the coal fuel to a plant i ...
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  • Godson 6 years ago

    As for U searching for a job and keep waiting (very frustrating), DO NOT WAIT IN PERPETUITY! You might consider investing in knowledge-based skill that has unending returns. EACH DAY , YOUR CAPITAL IS YOUR KNOWLEDGE, SKILL ...
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  • NPP SENIOR CITIZEN 6 years ago

    Nana Akuffo Addo main aims are Cocaine Business, Money laundering, Prostitutions And Blood sacrifices the rest are fun

  • THE MADMAN 6 years ago

    your stupid propaganda have started early, your NDC paymasters must be desperate

  • MyName 6 years ago

    Grow up!
    If you don't have anything to contribute to the debate please spur us the moment.

  • Bino 6 years ago

    Go to China and see the cost of pollution by coal fueled energy !

  • Hmmn 6 years ago

    Coal is in the final pangs of death. It's becoming obsolete. The real game changer is renewable energy and China has emerged and is cementing it's global dominance of renewable energy and technology. I guess the cost of pollu ...
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  • Amaliba 6 years ago

    Coal is not an option. Developed countries are ditching the use of coal because it comes with a whole lot of health issues, and it's not good for the environment either. There are better options, all they have to do is to do ...
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  • Jaja 6 years ago

    One would have thought it would add some 2000MW of power to the national grid being the largest gas fired power plant in the whole world. Propaganda at its best. We have seen several of such in the country by President Mahama ...
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  • P Djamgbe 6 years ago

    Say that again Jaja. A 400mw LPG plant is the world's largest of its kind? I remember vividly when Osafo Marfo was voted the best finance minister in the whole world in Kuffuo's first few years in power. Hmm, may George Orwel ...
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  • Koffio 6 years ago

    Ghanaians must learn to research before we pass comments. I interned for a power company in Missouri a couple of years back. We spent atleast $1.5bn every year just to buy fuel for 2million households. The average transmissio ...
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  • THE MADMAN 6 years ago

    educate this ndc propaganda idiots

  • Kwame assin 6 years ago

    Bro!!! You are right on that, there is limited investment going into continuous energy supply across the country. A country like ours, should boost investment in energy supply to bring the nation consumption of energy to an a ...
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  • Edd on Point 6 years ago

    Sorry people .... this is the largest LPG fired plant in the world. LPG is different from Natural gas.
    Also this is a combined cycle plant so the 200 MW is the individual plants outputs plus the Steam generator+ steam turbi ...
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  • Amaliba 6 years ago

    Learn to appreciate small blessings that come your way. At least it's better than nothing.

  • KKD45 6 years ago

    How can 5x28.5MW +4x48MW equals 400mw Please just me honest with the people of Ghana.How can 300.5Mw be the biggest LPG power plant in the world.

  • Concerned 6 years ago

    The figures you are referring to only relates to stage one

  • Akosua 6 years ago

    Np p will never acknowledged any good thing from NDC. What sort of leadership is this? Npp have disproved all the leadership theories that exist. Ghanaians need their own concept of leadership theories. Ewahe is it is hard.

  • Adizoh 6 years ago

    I thought Ghana's problem with power was money and that we have capacity... Why build a power plant again

  • Ghana Web 6 years ago

    Politicians indeed! Hmmm!!

  • TruthIsOne 6 years ago

    Said JDM destroyed the economy, no money. When did the npp order the equipment? What we saw, were they ordered when they were in opposition?

  • Robert djan 6 years ago

    The can keep laying to Ghanaians . This can never be the biggest Lpg plant in the world...

  • stateman 6 years ago

    Propaganda at its best!

  • GHANA FORAY 6 years ago

    This is a brain child of John Dramani Mahama. And see how excited Nana Addo is commissioning another man's a achievment. A man he called incompetent. Why is the stateman news paper not telling Ghanians that this was made poss ...
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  • Amaliba 6 years ago

    You can eat your heart out. Nana all the way.

  • Mallam Zarki 6 years ago

    In fact, the Mahama NDC government was the one that conceived, negotiated and signed for this project with the private entity to build this plant. Today, the ever dtrsling/plagiarizing Nana Addo and the NPP are happy cutting ...
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  • Charles 6 years ago

    Not sure if the figures for Ghana are right. But sirgutskaya gres-2 in Russia has installed capacity of 5597MW.

  • Ike 6 years ago

    Oh then Nana Addo too is incompetent because this was what JM was doing and we called him incompetent I mean cutting sod and commissioning infrastructure projects

  • African 6 years ago

    Propaganda at it best!!!
    As if we have never heard this before! !!!
    How can a 400MW LPG plant, be the biggest in the history of the world. Here in the USA, it is just the quantity of power needed to run a single company.
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  • Lies all the way 6 years ago

    400 MW power LPG-fired power plant deemed largest LPG in the world? Just who is behind this utter lies and propaganda? To find out where the truth lies, just google 'List of natural gas power stations' and you will find that ...
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  • CATAPULT 6 years ago

    It may well be the world's largest LPG-fired power plant in the world. There is a difference between LPG which is liquefied petroleum gas and LNG which is liquefied natural gas. They are all hydrocarbons alright but the compo ...
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  • Edd on Point 6 years ago

    Stop spewing lies yourself .... LPG fired plant is different from a natural gas fired plant. If you don't know the difference check with an engineer please. There is no LPG fired plant of this capacity anywhere in the world. ...
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  • Mr Eagles 6 years ago

    Fools, what's good about this, Ghana needs renewable energy like fossil fuels, solar power or nuclear plant. This one is going to be like hydro-electric, we have to spend money to by gas or deasel to power it.
    Boost the sola ...
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  • ofori 6 years ago

    Emri is 500 megawatts @ 560 million dolars... This new one US 400 megawatts at 963 million dollars... Something is wrong with our leaders... Yet we are probing Emri?

  • Sam 6 years ago

    i thought i heard bawumia said on the 100 days performance that government would only consider renewable energy n no more fossil fuel.. politicians. .. unfortunately too its president Mahama that negotiated this deal b4 leavi ...
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  • Osei Mensah 6 years ago

    NPP - New propaganda party

  • Amaliba 6 years ago

    And NDC: National Drug Corrriers.

  • owusu Alex 6 years ago

    Good nana you are number one

  • Yaw 6 years ago

    These people who write these insult are the same people you find in churches and mosques. What is wrong with us! Honour your mother and father so that you may live longer. You insults can't change anything but show's your upb ...
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  • ben 6 years ago

    Mr President pl give thanks to former President mahama

  • Nana Kwame 6 years ago

    Propopaganda galore, propaganda every where. Who told you this is world largest LPG plant. In the US and Germany where I live they have plants of such calibre which are about three times this one. Is this news? Every gove ...
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  • Edd on Point 6 years ago

    It serves no purpose to rain insults when you yourself sounds like you don't know what you are complaining about or lack the understanding of what is at stake. This project won the Innovation award at the world LPG congress l ...
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  • Cantankerous 6 years ago

    And who will be the foreigners coming to rip us off?

  • Afua Citizen 6 years ago

    The agreement for this was signed in August 2016, please Mr. President stop talking you can't take the glory for this!!!!

  • Amaliba 6 years ago

    No wonder the price is so high. How much percentage did JM and his gang take?

  • Hamza Fuseini 6 years ago

    When was the bill for construction of 4000mw power project passed by parliament before the sod cutting? How many bills were passed under Nana Addo NPP govt. Give credience where it is due. Give TRUE picture of events a beat.

  • Pee 6 years ago

    Project schedule please ?

  • Nana Sakyi 6 years ago

    The cost of construction is too high. All you need is furnance, turbine and induction motor. For a 400 MW, including civil and contigency, the project cost shouldn't be this much. This is my area and I now get a clear pictur ...
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  • Francis-korea 6 years ago

    I'm very sad that all the engineers in the pic were wearing helmets and left the president and the minister to cut the sod without any protective clothing... nana is indeed not safe...he's naked

  • Meses Awatey :Koforidua. 6 years ago

    Yes, it is a step in the right direction. We will surely move forward.

  • Joe, Columbus OH 6 years ago

    When was this contract and project negotiated for. During the 100 days or everything for the project has been secured by the previous NDC government?

  • Ritchie 6 years ago

    True mate, I contract fir sino iron in Australia and their plant is 440MW gas powered just to run the process plant.