A former Managing Director of Enclave Power Ghana, one of the Independent Power Producers in the Republic of Ghana, says it was about time that power utilities stopped engaging in “unnecessary use of jargons” to communicate to Ghanaians problems confronting the power sector which has resulted in widespread outages.
According to him, the use of technical language or jargons by power utilities, sometimes, make Ghanaians to think that they are lying to them.
“I keep telling my friends what has the ordinary Ghanaian got to do with technical problem? The ordinary Ghanaian is interested in electricity so if there is a problem that has to do with reactive power, system stability, inadequate transmission capacity, don’t go and worry them with these jarjons. Don’t go on air and tell them that we don’t have enough capacity… its unnecessary,” he said.
The West African nation has been experiencing intermittent power supply since the beginning of 2021.
The power transmission company, GRIDCo and the country’s Minister for Energy, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, have blamed the situation on technical issues including upgrading of GRIDCo’s transmission lines.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with energynewsafrica.com, Ing Norbert Anku, who is a former staff of GRIDCo and VRA, advised the power utilities to try as much as possible to be frank and simple anytime they are communicating with the public.
“I think that if there is a problem with the network, we should just tell Ghanaians that there is a problem and we’re fixing it so give us few days or weeks,” he said.
Ing Norbert Anku also rebuked Ghanaians for always making mockery of power outages instead of demanding efficiency from power utilities.
Source: www.energynewsafrica.com
