Pacome Emmanuel Damalie Ghana is set to begin construction on a 1,200-megawatt (MW) state-owned gas-fired thermal power plant, a facility that will become the country’s biggest power plant, and officially surpassing the 1,020-MW Akosombo Hydroelectric Power Station. Speaking at a town hall meeting with the Ghanaian community in New York on Friday (Sept 25), President...
Day: September 26, 2026
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LEC RECEIVES 14,500 SMART METERS, 60,000 MORE EXPECTED
MONROVIA, LIBERIA — SEPTEMBER 21, 2026: The Liberia Electricity Corporation, LEC, has received 14,500 smart meters as part of efforts to advance its Smart Metering Program. The meters are part of a pilot initiative being implemented in Paynesville and its feeders, aimed at improving electricity metering, distribution efficiency and consumption monitoring. LEC says an additional...
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Ten Years, 450MW and Counting: Karpowership’s Role in Ghana’s Evolving Power Story
Ask someone in Tema who ran a small business in 2014 what dumsor meant to them, and the answer rarely starts with megawatts. It starts with lost hours, spoiled stock, generators running on borrowed diesel. That year alone, the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) put the economic cost of the outages at...