Tag: VRA
Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Dam: VRA Begins Aggressive Stakeholders Engagement
The Volta River Authority (VRA) is currently undertaken an aggressive Stakeholder and Community Sensitization in the Upper East and North East Regions as part...
Multi-purpose Pwalugu Dam: Govt promises compensation for farmers, home owners
Volta River Authority, VRA has disclosed that over 400 structures will be affected by the construction of the Pwalugu Multipurpose Dam project in both...
5 member VRA/NEDCO committee meets with youth of Damongo over power fluctuation
A five member committee set up by the Volta River Authority(VRA) and the Northern Electricity Distribution Company(NEDCO) has met with the youth of Damongo...
VRA donates to five districts towards COVID-19 prevention
The Volta River Authority (VRA) has presented items worth GHc210,000.00 to five districts and municipal assemblies within its operational areas in the Eastern Region...
VRA supports 5 Districts in the COVID-19 Prevention
The Volta River Authority (VRA) has presented items worth GHc 210,000.00 to 5 Districts and Municipal Assemblies within its operational areas. ...
VRA Hospital warns public against fake recruitment
The Management of the Volta River Authority (VRA) on Tuesday advised the public to disregard unscrupulous person posing as the Head of Laboratory Unit...
VRA builds solar powered water facility for Volo
The Volta River Authority (VRA) has commissioned a solar-powered mechanized borehole for the people of Volo in the North Tongu District of the Volta...
VRA holds thanksgiving service
The Volta River Authority (VRA)on Wednesday held its annual thanksgiving and festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Service ahead of Christmas.
The event was graced...
VRA Academy joins elite association of corporate training institutions
The Volta River Authority (VRA) Academy has been granted accession to the African Network of Centres of Excellence in Electricity (ANCEE), becoming the eighth...
IPPs hint of blackouts in Ghana over unpaid US$1.5 Million debt from ECG
Private power producers in Ghana may curtail power supply if the state power utility Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) does not pay up a...
Over 300 Students Benefit Under VRA Scholarship Scheme
The Volta River Authority under its Community Development Programme (CDP) has awarded 329 scholarships to students within its operational area to access higher educ,ation.
Out...
VRA Ladies Association Sensitise Public on Energy Conservation
The Volta River Authority (VRA) Ladies Association on Saturday embarked an “Energy Conservation Walk” across some principal streets of Accra to educate the public...
VRA Gives Dzebetato Community A Toilet Facility
The Volta River Authority (VRA) on Thursday commissioned and handed-over 30-unit micro-flush toilet systems to the people of Dzebetato in the South Tongu district...
VRA Must Pay For The Gas It Utilize – ACEP
In recent times the Ghanaian public has been subjected to the political debate about which political party is responsible for the inability of the...
GIMPA holds special graduation for VRA & GRIDCO staff
The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) has held a special graduation ceremony for its third module of Masters in Public Administration...
Project Maji, VRA provides water facility to Korankyi village
Project Maji Foundation, an international social corporate responsible organization, in partnership with the Volta River Authority (VRA) has handover a solar-powered mechanized borehole water...
VRA Supports Best Female Engineering Students
The Volta River Authority (VRA) has recognised the efforts of Ms Joana Ampomah for emerging the Best Female Engineering Student at the Takoradi Technical...
Minority Criticisms On Energy-Sector Bond Mischief
The Ministry of Finance says the Minority Caucus in Parliament’s criticisms of the Energy-sector Bond, issued by the ESLA PLC, smacks of “intellectual dishonesty”...
Issuance Of Energy Sector Bond Witness Tremendous Success
The Fidelity Bank, joint technical advisors to the issuance of the energy sector bond, says the issuance of the bond witnessed a tremendous success...
AMERI Politics Causes VRA US$11.5 Million Monthly
The nation has once again been plunged into the AMERI Power Project controversy with a stiff political stand-off between the former NDC administration which...
VRA & ABB moves to address Ghana’s power sector problems
ABB in Ghana has signed a Memorandum Of Understanding with Volta River Authority with the aim of extending ABB's training capabilities and technical know...
Dear Minister, remove the duplicitous offices to save resources
There seems to be some duplication in the discharge of duties in the public sector. Therefore, scrapping some of these quangos may go a...
Nana Begins Review Of All Energy Sector Agreement
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said his government has begun the process to review all energy sector agreements entered into by the previous...
Full Text Of The President’s Maiden State Of The Nation Address
We hereby submit the full text of the President’s maiden State of the Nation Address to Parliament
MESSAGE ON THE STATE OF THE NATION BY...
13 Towns In North Tongu To Get Potable Water
Safe Water Network, a not-for-profit international organisation, has commissioned a 100,000 dollar water station at Fodzoku in the North Tongu District of the Volta...
Off-taker owes China-financed Ghana Gas Company US$450 million
The Ghana National Gas Company Limited (GNGCL) has reported that the state-owned Volta River Authority (VRA) owes it 45 million U.S. Dollars for...
Experts: Rejection of US$1.5 billion coal power plant is best
After a public announcement of the intent by the VRA to venture into coal for electricity power generation in the country, several environmentalists and...
Why renewable energy must be preferred to coal
“Clean coal is a myth. There is no technology like that and we challenge VRA to show us examples of such technology”-350 Ghana Reducing...
Why Ghana must consider renewable energy and not Coal
When the news of Volta River Authority (VRA) going in for Coal-fired plants as an alternative to curb the power crisis in Ghana came...
Ghana’s utility regulator threatens sanctions against striking main power distributor
The Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC)'s Public Relations and External Affairs Director, Nana Yaa Jantuah, told journalists here on Tuesday the failure of...