John Abdulai Jinapor, the Minister for Energy and Green Transition, has announced that the country will experience a Nationwide power outage on July 13.
According to him, the temporary disruption of the power supply across the country will be due to plants shutting down for maintenance.
He asserted that the gas suppliers, ENI, will turn off their valves for rehabilitation as part of the company’s measures to increase gas production to 270 mm scarf.
John Jinapor stated, “This Sunday, ENI will turn off their valves temporarily to increase gas production to about 270 MM Scarf. It means that we are stabilising the energy sector”.
“Because the plant will be turned off for a short period within the day for maintenance works, we are likely to experience some interruption of power. It is for a good purpose”, he added.
He further revealed that, based on advice from technical persons, the government will refrain from running the plant on liquid fuels.
“Based on the advice from engineers, I have directed that we do not attempt to run those plants on liquid fuel for that short period,” he stated.
Mr. Jinapor added, “It involves changing nozzles, it involves a lot of work, and so if we are going off for about for to six hours, you don’t risk it transitioning to liquid fuel only to come back to gas.”
Meanwhile, John Jinapor further assured of efforts to minimise the adverse impact of the shutdown.
