NDC’s Time-of-Use (ToU) electricity tariff policy innovative and strategic to Ghana’s economic recovery

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• Okatakyie 1 year ago

  Very disingenuous article. The duration is 24 hour. Businesses use power from 9am to 5pm.
  
  The report restricts usage to the times 6pm to 9pm )(termed peak hours) which is mainly use by domestic consumers and 11pm to 5am ...
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  Very disingenuous article. The duration is 24 hour. Businesses use power from 9am to 5pm.
  
  The report restricts usage to the times 6pm to 9pm )(termed peak hours) which is mainly use by domestic consumers and 11pm to 5am (off peak hours).
  It is no science to note the time from 11pm to 5am is when most people are asleep and businesses are shut so where in this mix do businesses fit?
  
  What is innovative about stating the obvious? and what makes this strategic? Businesses to operate at the time when workers are asleep? Who will be manning the machines?
  
  Massa, stop this pedestrian thinking and labelling the obvious innovative and the absurd strategic

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• GaBAa 1 year ago

  Its a good idea that takes into account usage decisions. This cannot be managed in Ghana because it cost a lot of money to implement. You need smart meters for one in every home and power availability to run the meter softwar ...
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  Its a good idea that takes into account usage decisions. This cannot be managed in Ghana because it cost a lot of money to implement. You need smart meters for one in every home and power availability to run the meter software

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• Ilunga 1 year ago

  TOUs are generally advantageous to implement. However, care must be taken to protect groups of consumers such as residential consumers who are workers and have inflexible times to adapt to TOUs. Detailed arrangements exist in ...
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  TOUs are generally advantageous to implement. However, care must be taken to protect groups of consumers such as residential consumers who are workers and have inflexible times to adapt to TOUs. Detailed arrangements exist in California tat are quite complex to discuss here.
  
  For example, California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) program consumers are protected with 30-35% discount on their electric bill and a 20% discount on their natural gas bills.

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• Kafui Ama 1 year ago

  Take care of all illegal connections and there will be no debt to the producers. Corrupt technicians just take as little as 1000GHC and bypass the meters. In many homes and businesses are using AC and high consumption applia ...
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  Take care of all illegal connections and there will be no debt to the producers. Corrupt technicians just take as little as 1000GHC and bypass the meters. In many homes and businesses are using AC and high consumption appliances that have been illegally connected to bypass the meters. If all these could be checked, there would be no debt to the producers

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