The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in Tema Region in the Republic of Ghana has assured customers of uninterrupted power supply during this yuletide.
This was expressed by the General Manager, Ing. Emmanuel Akinie during a brief discussion with some journalists in his office.
He explained that his outfit has suspended all planned maintenance exercises because of the Christmas festivities.
Despite the assurance, he said other issues as faults could trigger outages but said, “We must restore supply to customers once we get to know about them.
“We urge customers to please let us know as soon as they have an outage because the region’s technical faults teams will be readily available for faults interventions despite the holidays.”
The Tema General Manager also emphasised that power outages may be a result of instances where some unscrupulous people vandalise transformers and steal fuses.
He said in such situations, “Our feeders or transmission lines will be supplying power all right but because of the damages, the customer-end will be without power supply.”
On this, he called on their customers and the general public to be on the lookout and stop anyone whom they find working on an ECG installation but is unable to produce an authorised ID card to support their activities.
The Tema Region ECG has had issues relating to transformer vandalism and fuse theft which has become so rampant that, in October 2021 alone, the Tema South District lost 192 fuses.
On the transformers, Ing. Akinie said that “the loss of transformers cause inconvenience to both customers and the company. Customers do not get supplies as they should and the company has to spend resources earmarked for other activities to procure and replace transformers.”
Ing. Emmanuel Akinie, on behalf of Management and staff of the Region, wished all their customers of ECG Merry Christmas.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
