The country’s expectations that the planned 2026 drilling campaign in the Voltaian Basin (VB) will help reverse the country’s steep oil production decline are “highly unrealistic”, the AfricaSustainable EnergyCentre (ASEC) has cautioned.
While tariff reviews are permitted under Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) rules, ASEC argued that such adjustments must be transparent, fair and evidence-based—not a way for ECG to shift the cost of inefficiencies onto consumers.