Power supply has been restored to several parts of Yilo and Manya Krobo Municipalities in the Eastern Region of Ghana after one week of staying in darkness.
The power distribution company, Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) cut power supply to the two municipalities last week after some unscrupulous persons transferred customers from one phase off transformers to another, leading to overloading of some transformers and eventually destroying several others within the communities.
To save its network, ECG shut down its feeders to the Bulk Supply Point supplying power to the areas.
A local journalist, Michael, who has been monitoring the power situation in the area told energynewsafrica.com that the power supply was restored a few minutes ago, Sunday.
The absence of power in the area over the last one week brought discomfort to the residents, with businesses turning to the use of gen-sets as alternative means of providing electricity.
According to the business owners, the total shutdown of power affected them adversely.
A Medical Director at the St. Martin’s De Porres Hospital, Dr Stephen Kusi said the facility was spending tens of thousands of Cedis on fuel to power its power plant to run the facility.
Most of the business owners said they spent about GHC100 daily to buy fuel to run either privately owned or hired generators.
An iced-cream depot operator, Enoch Teye reiterated the importance of electricity to the business and said they were losing their customers as sales had gone down.
“Currently, we’ve been having the problem of light off; power comes on and it goes off. Even as I speak to you, I’ve hired a generator and spent about GHc120 to buy petrol to run it. So, we have been affected,” another resident lamented.
A printing press operator, Moses Karlie, also said, “We’re not finding it easy at all…this is a printing press and everything about printing is electricity but since we have not had power for about four days now, work has not been easy at all.”
To save fuel, Mr. Moses said he uses his generator when customers walked in for their services.
According to him, “What we do is when a customer walks in, you put the generator on to work. After that, you turn it off to save the cost of fueling.”
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com