The Electricity Company of Ghana led by Ebenezer Baiden, Director of New Business and Risk Management, has visited the generation site at Anwomaso in the Ashanti Region.

Anwomaso aside housing the second Bulk Supply Point (BSP) in Kumasi is now the hub of electricity generation in the middle belt of Ghana with over three different plants under construction and a gas supply company.

Baiden and the ECG delegation visited Genser, Aksa Energy, CENIT Energy and the KITPP formerly known as AMERI.

The visit forms part of efforts by the nation’s largest power distribution company to familiarise themselves with the operations of upstream players to understand and monitor their activities.

Aksa Energy is expected to complete phase one of its project in May and Phase two by end of 2025. The project will see Aksa generate 205MW to the national grid.

CENIT Energy on its part is expected to generate 330MW with 110MW available by 3rd Quarter as phase one.

VRA is currently running six units of the K1TPP with a capacity between 138-145 MW. The second phase of relocating the Ameri plant from Western Region to Kumasi is expected to be completed by July, 2025. The remaining four units are already on site.

Genser as the gas supply company is expected to provide gas for all these plants once completed.

Addressing the generation companies, Baiden admonished the companies to strictly adhere to the local content law and ensure gender balance in employment.

“ECG as a company promotes gender equality through the Gender and Social inclusion policy so kindly ensure you try as much as possible to recruit from the Region and also consider women during employment to enable indigenes benefit directly from this project.

Briefing the Media, Benjamin Obeng Antwi, the ECG PRO for Ashanti West Region, indicated that this project is a step in the right direction to improve power supply in the Region and the country.

“Currently most of our generation plants are at Tema and Western Region so having a generation site in the middle belt to boost power supply from the middle belt to the northern sector is a step in the right direction.”

Antwi further indicated that the completion of these projects to make Ashanti Region a generation hub in the middle belt will help reduce transmission losses and also improve voltage profile in Ashanti Region.

“Once power will be generated at Anwomaso in Ashanti Region and our cherished customers will be closer to the source, the Voltage profile will improve and transmission losses will also reduce since power will not be transmitted from Tema or Western Region to Kumasi”, he said.

In attendance were Ing. Mark Wiafe (GM/Ashanti East), Ing. Asare Mensah (GM/Ashanti South), Ing. George Amoah (GM/Ashanti West) and Ing. Peter Kofi Fletcher (GM/Ashanti Sub-T).