Economic Policy Analyst Senyo Hosi has attributed Ghana’s recurring power challenges to inadequate financial investment across the electricity value chain, particularly in production and distribution infrastructure.
Speaking on The Big Issue on Channel One TV on Saturday, May 2, Hosi underscored the urgent need for sustained and strategic investment to strengthen the country’s power generation and distribution systems.
According to him, while some progress has been made in the past, the overall level of infrastructure development has not kept pace with growing demand, leaving the sector vulnerable to disruptions.
Hosi explained that although earlier investments in power generation helped to stabilise supply to some extent, attention must now shift to addressing weaknesses within the distribution network.
“We have had a big deficit in infrastructure investment to support the entire system. Initially, it was around generation. There was quite some significant investment at the time and it was helpful.
“There is a problem with our power pricing and also our technical management which is also curable by infrastructure investment. We have certain parts of the infrastructure for distribution defective and we can only cure that by spending more money to correct that and so there is a need for money.”
His comments come at a time when several parts of the country are grappling with intermittent power supply, reigniting public concern over the reliability of electricity.
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) attributed the outages to ongoing transformer maintenance works aimed at improving service delivery.
However, the situation was further compounded by a major incident on April 23, when a fire outbreak affected the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) substation at Akosombo.
The disruption from the incident significantly impacted power transmission, worsening the already fragile supply situation in several areas.
