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President John Dramani Mahama on Monday reassured Ghanaians of government’s commitment to ending the current erratic supply of power with the addition of 87-megawatts of power from the Takoradi Thermal Plant.The 87MW is part of the expected 132MW from the Thermal 3 Combined Cycle known as T3, which started in 2010. The full capacity will be completed by the end of April this year, and according to Mr. Mahama the timelines given in his State of the Nation address will be met.“I am impressed with the quality and the rate of work. Like I said during the state of the nation we have not been sleeping, we have been trying to bring as much generation as possible into the system and T3 is one example of it. We started in 2010 and it is largely complete. Its just 2% of work left to have it fully operational” he stated.President Mahama who was on a working visit to some power and water installations in the Western Region also visited the intake point of the West African Gas Pipeline, which suffered a major destruction in August last year. That has affected availability of gas to power the thermal plants.The president apologized once again to Ghanaians and businesses for the current power problems, explaining that the major shortfall in generation capacity is because of the breakdown of the gas pipeline.Work on the pipeline facility is almost complete. General Manager in charge of Operations at the West Africa Gas Pipeline, Dele Adongbede, told President Mahama that though the problem has been fixed and as part of the decommissioning process, engineers are currently cleaning the pipelines of debris, liquid and sand.Accompanying the President were the Chief of Staff, Prosper Bani, Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Emmanuel Kofi Armah Buah and the Regional Minister Paul Evans Aidoo.
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