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Revenue Shortfalls and Rising Tensions: Why Tamale’s Power Crisis Matters for Ghana’s Energy Future

  Ghana’s power sector is at a crossroads. While national headlines talk about multibillion-dollar gaps and debt to power producers, the crisis also plays out on the streets of regional capitals like Tamale  where unpaid bills, disconnections and violent confrontations between communities and utility staff are making an already fragile system even harder to fix. A national problem with local faces The International Monetary Fund and local reporting warn that Ghana’s energy sector could face a shortfall of roughly $2.2 billion by year-end if reforms and revenue measures aren’t fully implemented. That fiscal strain is the product of delayed tariff adjustments, rising generation costs, accumulated arrears, and persistent revenue shortfalls at state utilities. Beyond the headline numbers, government officials and auditors point at deep collection problems inside the state utilities involving losses, theft and low bill compliance that together eat into the cash the system needs t...