A rainstorm on the evening of Saturday, April 15th, 2023, has caused an interruption in power supply to some areas within the Yilo and Lower Manya Krobo areas in the Eastern Region of the Republic of Ghana.
The major destruction had to do with a roof that ripped off and fell on parts of ECG’s overhead line conductors, as a result, damaging a pole in the process at Kpong junction. That affected one of the two main network lines that supplied power to these two municipal areas.
Due to this rainstorm accident, customers in Kpong Quarters, Makrosec, Nuaso (New and Old Town), Kpongunor, Abanse, Agormenya Market and the township had their power supply curtailed.
According to a release by the Tema Public Relations Officer of ECG, Sakyiwa Mensah, “On the evening of the accident, some customers were migrated onto the other supply line which had not been affected, while work was ongoing to restore the broken pole and conductors.”
She explained that due to the extent of damage and its attendant repair works, some customers remained off supply since the incident, as they could not be migrated onto the unaffected supply line.
“The ECG Tema Region and Krobo District have been working assiduously to fix the problem and to restore supply to all customers. It is hoped that all repair works will be completed by the close of day Monday, 17th April 2023.
“The Company wishes to apologise for the inconvenience that this outage has caused and to also caution the public to be careful as we enter the rainy season which could have some storms as well.
“Roofs of buildings should be checked to ensure their integrity is intact to avoid such incidents and outages resulting from such incidents, as happened in Kpong on Saturday,” she concluded.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
