Turkey-based Karpower says it is determined to deliver on a 10-year power purchase agreement with the government.

The power company is currently building a power ship that will provide Ghana with 450 megawatts of power directly to the country's electricity grid.

Karpowership signed an agreement with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in June 2014 to assist Ghana with a crippling power generation deficit that has plunged the country into darkness.

Ghanaians had been banking their hopes to an end of the current load shedding exercise on the power barges from the Turkish company.

However, Karpower's Africa and Asia Director, Patrick O'Driscoll said, "we are not an emergency power ship [maker]. What is being publicised as emergency power barges in Ghana are not our power ships. We don't service emergencies".

Expectations had been at the peak after indications were given by the government that the "emergency barges" would be ready by April.

 However, it appears that Ghana may have to think of some other means of dealing with the ongoing power crisis in the short-term and not rely on the power ships under construction in Turkey.

According to the Turkey-based company, it never communicated to the government that the power plants would be completed by April.

"We never gave an April deadline!", O'Driscoll told Joy Business' Daryl Kwawu who, along with selected journalists from Ghana, is in Turkey as part of the company's bid to give the Ghanaian public a clear picture of the state of affairs.

"The power ships are not to address Ghana's short-term emergency need. The power ships would rather bridge the gap in Ghana's quest to find sustainable means of power supply and consequently become self-sufficient", he clarified.

Karpowership currently owns and operates more than 2000 megawatts installed capacity globally, supplying 15 percent of Iraq and 25 percent of Lebanon's total electricity generation.