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Akosombo Dam

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Akosombo Dam, Ghana: see Volta Volta , river, c.290 mi (470 km) long, formed in central Ghana, W Africa, by the confluence of the Black Volta (or Mouhon, c.840 mi/1,350 km long) and the White Volta (or Nakambe, c.450 mi/720 km long), both of which rise in Burkina Faso.
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The main sources of energy in Ghana are the Akosombo Dam, which generates 1,020MW and Kpong Dam, whch produces 160MW of electricity.
This comes in the wake of calls on the government to invest in alternative sources of power in addition to the Akosombo Dam, the chief supplier of electricity in the country.
The OECD mentions that industrial growth improved significantly in 2006--another quite positive development--but growth in the industrial sector, and hence higher paying jobs and improved consumer spending, is likely to be truncated by problems in the production in electricity at the Akosombo Dam on the Volta River.
 
 
 
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