The Executive Director of the Institute of Energy Security, Nana Amoasi VII, says the country shouldn't have experienced frequent power outages, commonly known as 'dumsor', since 2017.

According to him, the country had all the necessary capacity to generate and supply power for consumption without any crises from that year on. "With the opportunities and resources entrusted to the current government in 2017, we shouldn't have been experiencing dumsor at all because we had a high installed capacity, a very dependable capacity of 4,300 megawatts," he said.

He further explained that the country currently has a dependable capacity of 5,100 megawatts but "we are struggling to produce power to the extent of just 3,100 megawatts," he noted on Joy News' Newsfile on Saturday, November 23, with Samson Lardy while discussing the current power crisis in the country.

Also speaking on the show, the acting Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Ing.