The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has commissioned Ghana’s first micro hydroelectric plant at Alavanyo, in the Volta Region. The Tsatsadu Generating Station (TGS), situated on the Tsatsadu Waterfalls in the Hohoe District of the Volta Region, has a capacity of 45kW with the possibility of adding another 40-60kW capacity turbine in the future.

President Akufo-Addo speaking at the commissioning said the project will add to the country’s generation mix. He said “this important project is going to assist the people of Volta Region and Ghana as a whole, and we will get the best out of it because it is wholly owned by us the Ghanaian people. The design and engineering and its construction is all Ghanaian owned. It’s been done 100 percent by the engineers and the workers of the Bui Power Authority. For us also to get the full benefit, there is going to be a research site for those who are going to be operating it to get the necessary knowledge.”