Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Saturday, March 19, 2016
From all indications, the power crisis known in
local parlance as dumsor that rocked the nation for close to four years might return
in a couple of weeks.
This follows an announcement by Ghana Grid
Company Limited (GRIDCo) – the body mandated to transmit electricity - that the
Floating Production Storage and Offloading Vessel (FPSO) Kwame Nkrumah was
shutting down for maintenance works.
The situation, according to GRIDCo, is going to
affect power supply stability.
A news release issued yesterday and signed by
William Amuna, Chief Executive of GRIDCo said the shutdown of the FPSO started yesterday,
March 20 and was expected to last for “about two weeks.”
The release said gas flow from the Atuabo Gas
Processing Plant to the Aboadze Thermal enclave had been curtailed and expected
to commence upon the resumption of production from the FPSO.
According to the release, “gas flow from the
West Africa Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo) has suddenly reduced to only 6.0mmscf
from the contracted volume of 120.0mmscf
arising from vandalism on some pipelines in Nigeria.”
It said that engineers following the development
had commenced the process of converting what they called “all dual fuel thermal
plants to run on Light Crude Oil to resolve the challenge.”
The statement said “the conversion process which
involves cleaning of fuel nozzles and other preparatory works is expected to
take a few days to complete,” adding “during this period, the power supply
system may experience some challenges, thereby affecting power supply stability.
GRIDCo assured the public that engineers were
working around the clock to bring supply to normalcy.
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