Ghana will sell stakes in three thermal power plants as it seeks to cut state-owned companies' debt and boost electricity production following years of outages that hurt investor confidence.The West African nation has identified the fossil fuel-burning plants capable of producing a combined 501 megawatts, or about a third of its total thermal power-generating capacity, that it'll at least partly privatize, James Demitrus, head of revenue monitoring at the Energy Ministry, said in an interview in the capital, Accra. While thermal power plants can burn oil or gas to gen-erate electricity, the country can also produce 1,180 megawatts from hydro-power.Investors would be expected to fund upgrades to boost the facilities' output by a third, according to Demitrus. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Fieldstone Private Capital Group have been advising on the privatizations, he said. State-run thermal plants are operating at 50 percent to 65 percent of capacity, with 80 percent the target, according to the Volta River Authority, the state power producer.
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机译：加纳将出售三座火力发电厂的股份，以寻求削减国有公司的债务并在多年停电损害投资者信心后提高电力生产。 r n西非国家已确定了能够能源部收入监控主管詹姆斯·德米特鲁斯（James Demitrus）在首都阿克拉接受采访时表示，该公司将生产合计501兆瓦的电能，约占其总热发电容量的三分之一，并将至少部分私有化。虽然火力发电厂可以燃烧石油或天然气来发电，但该国也可以利用水力发电1,180兆瓦。 r n投资者应该为升级项目提供资金，以将设施的产出提高三分之一，根据Demitrus的说法。他说，普华永道会计师事务所和菲尔德斯通私人资本集团一直在为私有化提供建议。根据州电力生产商沃尔塔河管理局的说法，国有热电厂的产能利用率为50％至65％，目标是80％。
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