Despite frequent outages afflicting homes and businesses, former Ayensuano Member of Parliament Samuel Ayeh-Paye has stated that Ghana is not facing intermittent power cuts, also known as "dumsor."

Increased power failures in recent months have prompted requests from impacted regions for a load-shedding schedule.

In a media appearance in Kumasi last month, Energy Minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh vehemently refuted the existence of "dumsor" and pushed those in favor of a load-shedding schedule to create their own.

The former Ayensuano MP said that while Ghana now has enough installed capacity to fulfill electricity demand, technological obstacles prevent its full use on The Big Issue on Citi FM and Citi TV.

"The electricity authorities claim that there is a technical problem rather than a "dumsor" behind our power interruptions. When there is insufficient electricity to generate or supply the precise peak demand that we need, a "dumsor" occurs.

Our current peak output is around 3,600 megawatts. However, we are producing somewhat less than that, resulting in a deficit. The power agencies claim that this shortage is not due to a lack of built capacity. The computation assumes an installed capacity of at least 5,000.

Additionally, Mr. Ayeh-Paye refuted claims that the power outages are only the result of inadequate funding for fuel purchases that power the different production facilities and pay power producers.

"What the [Energy] Ministry is telling us is that some of the plants are undergoing maintenance and repairs, and the ECG is also informing us that they are having transformer problems. The problem is not that we don't have enough money to buy fuel."