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Former Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo), Ing William Amuna has revealed that Ghana has enough energy capacity to meet the demand of Ghana’s power outages.

This he noted has led to the supply of power to Ghana’s neighbours Ivory Coast and Togo over the past few days - according to Ing Amuna, a total of 100 megawatts to 200 megawatts have been exported so far.

“Ghana once used to be exporters of power to La Cote D’Ivoire but when the power crisis happened we became importers of electricity from La Cote D’Ivoire. Through our collective efforts, we have been able to install electricity supply to Ghana.”

“Today we have over 25% installed capacity on standby. We need not import power. We export power. In fact, for the past three days, Ghana has been exporting 100 megawatts of power to La Cote D’Ivoire. Togo has similar problems and we export to Togo and Benin,” Amuna said at a workshop organized by Siemens Ghana in Accra.

However, speaking on the theme, “Electrification as a catalyst for growth”, Head of Siemens Ghana Edmund Acheampong attributed the revival in Ghana’s economy to the steady supply of electricity over the last few months.

“2015 was the height of our energy crisis but from late 2016 there has been gradual improvement till now. We are beginning to see a revival in the economy” he said

He also disclosed that Siemens has the techonology which stakeholders in the waste management sector can leverage on to convert waste to energy.

Siemens workshop brought together stakeholders in the energy sector to discuss issues including project financing, next-generation power plant for Ghana “Time for F-class GT” and Siemens’ value propositions for the biomass and waste to energy.