VRA Warning Lights Blink - Aboadze Shut Down

A few days ago The Chronicle reported that the warning at VRA is active and that the Aboadze thermal plant faced a fuel shortage.

On Monday August 4, this year, the plant was shut down for non-availability of fuel.

The Chronicle’s intensive investigations disclosed that two consignments of fuel that was supplied to Aboadze by Sahara were rejected because of high sodium content.

Another reason is that the authority’s financial health condition is not favourable enough to pay for fuel that will power the generators.

Consignments delivered at Aboadze which range between 200,000 and 300,000 barrels cost between $9 and $10 million per trip and this is expected to last for about three weeks, depending on the number of generators running at a time.

The Aboadze plant discharges 300megawatts of power when operating at full capacity with three generators on stream, whilst at the same time the nation imports 200 megawatts of power from the Ivory Coast to augment supplies from the Akuse and Akosombo hydro plants.

Reports reaching the Chronicle at press time have it that a tanker was discharging fuel to reactivate the otherwise shutdown thermal plant, but VRA inside sources hinted that it was not likely that the fuel being discharged could last for even two weeks.