President John Dramani Mahama has disclosed that government will this year break ground on a 1,200-megawatt power plant to boost Ghana’s generation capacity amid rising national consumption.
The project, President Mahama said, is part of a wider plan by the administration to meet surging electricity use and build backup into the country’s supply system.
Speaking at the Resetting Ghana Citizen Engagement on 2 May 2026, he observed that Ghana’s peak power demand has climbed sharply due to more investment and economic growth.
“Looking at how the country is growing, the consumption of electricity is growing. When we came to power, the consumption was 3,500 megawatts but currently the consumption at peak has gotten to 4,300 megawatts and that is because there is more investment in town and that demand for electricity has become high, so meaning we have to add more generation so that we can get redundancy,” he stated.
He noted that the Energy and Finance ministries have already mapped out the plan, adding that beyond local supply, surplus power could be sold to neighbours like Burkina Faso to bring in forex.“By God’s grace, this year we will cut sod for its commencement,” he added.
