New electricity tariffs won’t improve load shedding – PURC

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• de 11 years ago

  This is a case of pure insanity.When people face erratic power supply you keep increasing tariffs. It doesn't make any sense at all. Service providers always take consumers for granted.

  This is a case of pure insanity.When people face erratic power supply you keep increasing tariffs. It doesn't make any sense at all. Service providers always take consumers for granted.

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• Alpha Kunta Kunte 11 years ago

  We are in a very HOPELESS country, hopeless president, hopeless institutions. We are in a DOOMED country. Don't tell me I don't love my country.

  We are in a very HOPELESS country, hopeless president, hopeless institutions. We are in a DOOMED country. Don't tell me I don't love my country.

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• liv 11 years ago

  You not alone, sometimes I tell people I'm from Guyana.

  You not alone, sometimes I tell people I'm from Guyana.

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• Daniel Nyarko 11 years ago

  So we are to pay for govt's inefficiencies in dealing with the falling currency, huh.

  So we are to pay for govt's inefficiencies in dealing with the falling currency, huh.

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• kay 11 years ago

  I seriously wish I wasn't a ghanaian......wat a country....

  I seriously wish I wasn't a ghanaian......wat a country....

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• Jakpa Dooshie 11 years ago

  The people at PURC are as disappointing just like the Government. To have a 2000MW thermal plant on the grid fueled by a dedicated onshore LNG regas would stabilize the system, power and pricing. But I am informed simple lett ...
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  The people at PURC are as disappointing just like the Government. To have a 2000MW thermal plant on the grid fueled by a dedicated onshore LNG regas would stabilize the system, power and pricing. But I am informed simple letter to PURC by the Consultants to the Project has not been answered in over two years. How can a Public Corporation operate like that? Whatever it is that make Governments have a hard ear must be stronger that their will to honestly serve the people that they have sworn to serve.
  
  I am informed, and I understand that the 2000 MW Ketu Power Project was coming with a 350 mmscf/day (about 3.0Mtonne/year LNG) onshore modular ORV regasification.
  
  This is far more than Ghana needs to solve her energy problem for the next 10 years or more. But the Energy Ministry and its Minister have shoved this investment at bay for 5 years just to pave the way for their contract power barges.
  
  Power barges depending on their source of fuel would generate power at a cost 1.7 to 3.2 times the cost of the same capacity plant on land.
  
  Power barges are ONLY emergency response when planned generation is disrupted by a force majeure or for very remote locations such as the North Sea Oil Platforms and its artificial islands or for military purposes as in Afghanistan or for mining in remote locations as in Chile.
  
  Ghana as a developing country needs the cheapest power to encourage investment.
  
  For your information Ghana has one power barge, the Osagyefo which has not generated a single watt since it was procured.
  
  The 2000 MW Ketu Power Project, we are told is a 2 Billion Euro foreign direct investment with no direct implication for Ghana Debt Portfolio.
  
  So why is the NDC dragging its feet?
  
  Why hasn't this investment taken off?
  
  Why is Hon. Kofi Buah playing hide and seek with this investors?
  
  And why would the Government of the NDC and Mahama as its Leader deny the people of Ketu this wonderful opportunity?

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• UNITED 11 years ago

  This is "politics in politic". I pity the "world bank" of NDC. Can the government or the Honourable Mininster explain this, whether Jakpa was telling lies or the truth. We want to know now,NOT during election time.

  This is "politics in politic". I pity the "world bank" of NDC. Can the government or the Honourable Mininster explain this, whether Jakpa was telling lies or the truth. We want to know now,NOT during election time.

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• Guzu 11 years ago

  nkwasiasem tweaaa

  nkwasiasem tweaaa

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• Concerned Citizen 11 years ago

  Let me get this straight, increments are applied in the name of the provision of better and quality services . What have we seen since the automatic tariff adjustment was put in place? Worse services . The PURC has no locus t ...
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  Let me get this straight, increments are applied in the name of the provision of better and quality services . What have we seen since the automatic tariff adjustment was put in place? Worse services . The PURC has no locus to be increasing the tariff at this point in time .
  Ghanaians are being taken for granted by these useless utility services providers and so called commissions. Sick and tired of this nonsense. We need a revolution to restore sanity in the system. People are taking us for a ride.

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• truth 11 years ago

  I am not surprise. This stupid PRO Nana Yaa woman at purc seems to be a PRO of electricity. She can fight and argue for electricity as if she works for electricity

  I am not surprise. This stupid PRO Nana Yaa woman at purc seems to be a PRO of electricity. She can fight and argue for electricity as if she works for electricity

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• Nowrong 11 years ago

  Any time there was an increase in electricity tariff, we hear that it was because they want to improve the system. This will continue to the next increase. My question is ,"Are these people thinking at all?"
  How can you incr ...
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  Any time there was an increase in electricity tariff, we hear that it was because they want to improve the system. This will continue to the next increase. My question is ,"Are these people thinking at all?"
  How can you increase the bill when you don't have the product to supply, and you are also not ready to purchase extra power for distribution?

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• Gasty Gasty 11 years ago

  NDC Governance is interesting it will oneday be use in Children Books. The Fairy tale that became real. Come 2016 people will still vote for them. NDC weldone let the Voters see their Foolishness.

  NDC Governance is interesting it will oneday be use in Children Books. The Fairy tale that became real. Come 2016 people will still vote for them. NDC weldone let the Voters see their Foolishness.

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• Seidu yussif 11 years ago

  I think it should be proper way of adrassing this issue. Rather than telling Ghanaians this tomorrow that.PURC should work hard to disolved this issue.

  I think it should be proper way of adrassing this issue. Rather than telling Ghanaians this tomorrow that.PURC should work hard to disolved this issue.

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