Ghana’s power transmission company, GRIDCo, has employed three female engineers who were part of the workforce that executed the US$50 million Kasoa Bulk Supply Points in the Central Region.
“I am happy to announce that three of the female engineers have been recruited to join GRIDCo effective June 1, 2022.
“We caught them young at this very substation,” Board Chair of GRIDCo, Ambassador Kabral Blay-Amihere said in a speech delivered at the commissioning of the Kasoa Bulk Supply Point.
According to him, the young females were made to go through “our due recruitment process.”
The move, according to GRIDCo, was to promote gender equality and Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education at the tertiary level.
Ambassador Kabral Blay-Amihere used the occasion to highlight some of the challenges confronting the power sector.
“GRIDCo and sister companies namely ECG, VRA and Bui Power Authority operate in a strategic sector with varied and complex challenges ranging from burdensome legacy debts to liquidity problems. And in the case of GRIDCo, legacy transmission lines dating to the 60s must be urgently reconstructed to meet the growing demand for reliable electricity supply throughout the length and breadth of the country,” he explained.
He said despite the many challenges, GRIDCo continues to work 24/7, travelling the valleys, mountains, bushes and forests where their towers and transmission lines traverse to wheel power to ECG, NEDCO and other customers in the chain.
“We fully recognise the importance of reliable electricity towards the nation’s industrialisation programme, particularly the 1D1F policy and are working strenuously to reinforce and reconstruct our transmission systems.
“GRIDCo, in the last five years, has repositioned itself towards playing its part in the development of Ghana,” Ambassador Kabral Blay-Amihere concluded.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
