{"id":225675,"date":"2026-03-01T12:47:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lec-seeks-100-mw-thermal-plant-approval-to-boost-power-demand\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:47:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:47:40","slug":"liberia-lec-seeks-100-mw-thermal-plant-approval-to-boost-power-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lec-seeks-100-mw-thermal-plant-approval-to-boost-power-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: LEC Seeks 100-MW Thermal Plant Approval to Boost Power Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) is calling on the national government to fast-track the approval of a new 100-megawatt (MW) thermal power plant, warning that immediate action is required to secure the nation&#8217;s &#8220;energy sovereignty&#8221; by 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Speaking at a public hearing hosted by the Liberia Electricity Regulatory Commission (LERC) regarding the renewal of LEC&#8217;s Power Import License, Deputy Managing Director for Operations, Thomas Z. Gonkerwon, emphasized that Liberia&#8217;s path to reliable&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602270336.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) is calling on the national government to fast-track the approval of a new 100-megawatt (MW) thermal power plant, warning that immediate action is required to secure the nation&#8217;s &#8220;energy sovereignty&#8221; by 2027. Speaking at a public hearing hosted by the Liberia Electricity Regulatory Commission (LERC) regarding the renewal of LEC&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[53790,258,256,8113,6557,7617,13476,4712,1107,257,8489,7047,8111,254,53791],"class_list":["post-225675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-100mw","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approval","tag-boost","tag-demand","tag-lec","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-plant","tag-power","tag-seeks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thermal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}