Ghana Power Rationing to Continue Into 2015: Official

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Ghana, West Africa’s second-biggest economy, may need to ration electricity for the next 10 months because it lacks spare capacity to replace plants shut down for repair, a government official said.

“We have no reserves,” Samuel Fletcher, a spokesman for the Volta River Authority, the state-owned producer of 80 percent of the nation’s electricity, said in an interview today in the capital, Accra. “Demand and supply are all the same.”