The Deputy CEO of Volta River Authority, Mr. Kirk Koffie, on Friday 30th October, 2009, gave a presentation at the seminar series organised by The Energy Centre, KNUST under the auspices of College of Engineering. 

Mr. Koffie who also happens to be a product of the College of Engineering spoke on the topic “Towards an Optimal Power Generation Mix” and he encouraged up and coming engineers to do their best to help in the generation of power for the country.

He spoke on the country’s power generation capacity and gave the assurance that the Volta River Authority, together with the Government of Ghana, is doing its maximum best to supply sustainable and reliable energy to all sectors of country. He said that for this to take place, there will be the need for all and sundry to contribute their quota to the on-going effort of the country by using energy wisely.

Mr. Koffie’s presentation was the last in the nine-week seminar series organised by The Energy Centre, KNUST in its attempt to inform the university community on the need to look at various sources of of energy for power generation in Ghana.

The seminars were sponsored by VRA which is the main power generation utility in Ghana and also has responsibility for electricity distribution in the northern half of the country.  VRA currently runs two hydro power plants, Akosombo (1080 MW) and Kpong (160 MW), and several thermal power plants including Africa’s first Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (330 MW) in Takoradi.

To download a pdf version of Mr Kirk Koffie’s presentation please click here.

For more information on the Volta River Authority (VRA) please click here.