Ghana: Kasoa Bulk Supply Point Project Is 40% Complete

Works on the ongoing 435MVA Gas Insulated Switchgear Bulk Supply Point at Kasoa in Central Region in the Republic of Ghana is progressing speedily.

The project is currently about 40 percent complete, Senior Project Manager, Mawunyo Rubson told energynewsafrica.com in a telephone interview.

When energynewsafrica.com visited the site recently, workers were seen busily working to ensure that the contractor met the completion date.

The US$42.3 million Kasoa BSP is being executed by German electrical company with Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) being the implementing agency and it is being funded by Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) under the Ghana Power Compact II.

The project, which began in January 2020, is expected to be completed by July 2021.

The Kasoa BSP, when completed, would be the second largest BSP in the country, after the Pokuase BSP, which is currently under construction.

The project would, among other things, reduce the transmission and distribution system losses suffered by GRIDCo and ECG respectively, and would ultimately improve the operational and financial performance of the utility providers.

It would, further, improve power supply in Kasoa and its surrounding communities in the Central Region with about 250,000 customers of ECG expected to be served.