Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, has announced the end of power "disruptions" which he says takes effect from Friday.

Some parts of the country in the past weeks have experience some power interruptions, sparking fears of the return of another power crises popularly known as "dumsor."

However, the minister has allayed the fears, saying  the recent unplanned power cuts experienced in some  parts of the country, was as a result of technical works on some of the  power plants.

He said  the remedial works were to end on Monday, it had to be extended because some works were still outstanding.

“we have gone through from 1st February till now with very minimal disruption,"he said.

We should have come to the end of the program on Feb 23rd, however Tullow, the field operator, requested a couple of days extension to do the peak testing and so it moved from 21st to 24th February.

Today [Friday], is the day when we come to the end of the disruptions and this evening we start the flow of gas, which brings us to our normal state.”

“We’ve gone through two days of disruptions but I can tell Ghanaians that that is the end of the disruptions,” he added.

A press release signed by the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), and the Volta Region Authority (VRA) earlier in January, announced the shutdown of the Ghana Gas Company for some remedial works to increase the country’s generation capacity.

The release assured Ghanaians that, the development would not result in unplanned power cuts popularly known as ‘dumsor’.

Meanwhile, the end of the remedial works indicates that, the process to connect the TEN fields to the Atuabo plant  has been completed with a significant increase in the amount of natural gas produced to run the power generating facilities at Aboadze, to improve the overall reliability of power supply to the general public.

By:Fiifi Abdul Malik