Bui Solar Energy Project
Power crisis is an unforgettable issue in Ghana communities. Some communities can spend night without electricity for 3 solid days. People lost trust in power supplies especially Electricity Company Of Ghana (ECG) and Volta River Authority (VRA) hence rich people are forced to purchase generators for the work activities less rich people who can?t afford were helpless and have to shut down their businesses. Others have to move their profitable business to the nearby countries like Togo and others. The country lost a lot of revenue because the issue discourage a lot of investors to the country.
There is the need for the power supplies in the country to do something if not to eliminate the menace but to reduce it. The Bui Power Authority (BPA) brought the solar energy project to solve the problem.
Managers of the Bui dam has finalized agreements for work to start on the construction of a $56 million solar energy project in the Bole District of the Northern Region.
The Authority paid compensation to those farmers whose farms were affected, the Authority had paid all the crop and the right way of compensations as well as resettled farmers who were directly or indirectly affected by the project and yet to pay the land compensation to chiefs of the area for releasing 1000 acre of land which contained various economic trees for the project.
According to Mr. Fred Oware, the Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of the BPA, on the completion, the 12 month project would add 50 megawatts of power to the national electricity grid.
Mr. Oware told the chiefs and people of the Mo North traditional are that the project would open up economic activities in the area and advised them to support and cooperate with the construction firm
Nana Solomon Antwi Dompeh 11, the Chief of Carpenter welcomed the project and was optimistic that it would bring development opportunities to the area. He appealed to the BPA to ensure the community will be given a slot on the membership of the Board Of Directors of the project.