Bureaucracy, Bribes, and Blackouts : The Other Side of Ghana’s Power Crises

Ghana's power crises has affected businesses, individuals and institutions. Generally, it has been blamed on geographical factors (low water level in the dam), lack of funds to buy light crude oil and unavailability of natural gas. This working paper seeks to examine the impact of lack of transparency especially in procuring thermal plants, attitude of utility staff with regards to bills collection and an inefficient regulator may all have contributed to this crises