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The Minister for Energy and Petroleum, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, has called on power utilities to intensify public education on energy conservation.

According to him, Ghanaians need to ingrain energy conservation attitudes into their daily activities and help to sustain the supply of adequate power.

“We have had a situation in the early days in Ghana where electricity was so abundant that we missed the opportunity of inculcating energy conservation habits,” he said, adding that the time has come to realize that electricity is now very expensive.

The Minister was speaking at a meeting with bulk customers, including mining companies, and the Power Utilities – the Volta River Authority (VRA), the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) – in Accra on Friday. February 28.

The meeting was convened to discuss the acute power shortfall during peak periods resulting partly from the erratic gas supply from Nigeria and some generation units shutdown for maintenance.

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