Ghana: Recent Power Outages Not Our Fault – ECG

Ghana’s electricity distribution and retail company, ECG, has attributed the recent power outages being experienced in certain parts of the country to what it described as systemic challenges in the upstream.

ECG is, therefore, appealing to the general public to report outages to the ECG call centre to enable them to expedite action on their concerns.

Some parts of the West African nation, especially in Accra notably: Spintex, Teshie, Dzorwulu, Adenta, Adjiringanor and Weija, have been experiencing intermittent and prolonged power outages.

However, speaking on Accra-based Class FM, Public Relations Manager for ECG, Theresa Osabutey, said the challenges faced by its partners in the electricity value chain, GRIDCo and the Volta River Authority (VRA), over which it has no control, were a major contributing factor to the outages.

“It is due to some system challenges that we had upstream. You know for us, ECG, we get the power and we distribute to our customers but we have other companies that help in the chain of the electricity business; and, so, if they’re having challenges, it will definitely impact us and some of the challenges are things that we do not have much control over”.

She continued that “When it is an outage that we’re going to carry out from ECG, you’ll bear with me that we carry out announcements to the public; we have various types of work that will demand outages, like we want to do maintenance and for that we know, and, so, we carry out announcements.”

She urged electricity consumers to call and report power outages to the ECG call centre to enable the distributor to work on their concerns, since it could be due to a localised fault.

“We always advise customers that any time you’re having such outages in your area, make us aware”, she said.

Source: www.energynewsafrica.com