STORY BY JACOB NARH NORTAH/TWITTER: NarhNortah
SMEC International has supported, assisted and represented MiDA by assuming full responsibility for the management of portions of the Ghana Power Compact Program.
This follows the identification of Ghana’s power sector as constituting binding constraints to the growth of the national economy.
The Compact, funded by the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA), seeks to address persistent high load growth and limited addition of generation capacity challenges by creating an enabling environment for private investment in additional generation.
It also enhances the governance and regulatory environment of the Power Sector and strengthens the corporate governance, operational efficiency and financial viability of the power distribution utilities.
Speaking at a golf event at Achimota, Engineer of the SMEC Ghana, Munesu Dizamuhupe, said the Power Compact was to solve issues.
“The Power Compact was put up by the government in conjunction with the MCC to help the power sector in Ghana to solve certain issues—technical losses in the transmission system and non-technical losses like power theft, etc. Most of the projects we implemented were all tailor-made to solve these solutions.”
“We, first of all, put in two bulk supply points so as to inject power sources that are a major contributor to using technical losses which means we are bringing power closer to the distribution services,” he explained on Saturday, June 4.
“There are big projects which we implemented to reduce technical losses. We were aiming at reducing the length of distribution lines to make them shorter by putting in more transformers closer to people.”
“In terms of solving non-technical losses, there were two things that we put in—a geographical system and meter management system,” he added.
SMEC’s services under the compact project included general program management, design preparation, provision of specified services, assistance with required procurements, management and supervision of works, project oversight for services-related assignment and program close-out support.
The infrastructure projects developed under the Compact were the Kasoa and Pokuase Bulk Supply Points and associated Interconnecting lines, Low Voltage Feeder Bifurcation and network improvement for 5 Districts within Accra, High Voltage Distribution System and Security Lighting for 10 markets within Accra and Tamale, installation of Meter Management Systems (MMS), Implementation of Utility Geographic Information Systems (GIS), AC Test Building and with installed Refrigerator Test Laboratory, and Primary Substation and Interconnecting Circuit at the University of Ghana and Kanda.
Invitational Tournament
Ben Johnson won the Men’s Invitational Gold Tournament after recording 42 points followed by Majdi Joher, and Malclom Watson, who had 37 points each.
Louise Serfontein also won the Ladies’ tournament after recording 39 points.
Auxilliary prizes
Longest Drive (Hole 17)
Men: Ricus Terblance
Ladies: Mary Prempeh
Closest to the Pin (Hole 18)
Majdi Joher
Longest Drive (Driving Range)
Raymond Agamah Jojo
About SMEC
SMEC has operated in Ghana since 1976 and established a permanent office in Accra in 1998. SMEC’s first project was a feasibility Study and Detailed Design services for the Bui Hydroelectric Power Project. Since then, SMEC’s project experience in Ghana has spread across various sectors of Ghana’s growing economy and has completed about 3,300 projects in over 87 countries, with a talent pool of over 6,000 people working within a global network of over 75 offices across Asia, Africa, Australia and North and South America.
SMEC provides specialized consulting in Sectors such as Power & Energy, Urban Regeneration & Development, Transport, Rural and Regional Development, Water, Environment, Mining and Industrial Development, and Social and Institutional Development.
SMEC was recently adjudged the Project Management Excellence Consultant of the Year at the Ghana Project Management Excellence Awards 2021. SMEC International is a member of the Surbana Jurong Group, one of the leading multi-disciplinary consultancies with Project Management expertise world-wide.
