[ 2017-05-04 ]

Light won’t be back by 10am – ECG contradicts GRIDCo
The Electricity Company of Ghana has said claims
by the Ghana Grid Company that power will be
restored by 10m today is not feasible.

The CEO of the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo)
Ing. William Amuna told Morning Starr Thursday
that “hopefully by 10am” the massive blackout
that hit the entire country Wednesday night would
have been fixed.

According to him, GRIDCo is about 70 percent
through with restoration of the power.

But the deputy PRO for the ECG Daniel Adjei-Larbi
said it will take sometime before power could be
adequately distributed even if the problem is
resolved from GRIDCo’s end.

“By evening, we would have restored power
supply. The 10am is not exactly feasible because
they (GRIDCo) would give us the power supply but
we need to take it through the transmission
lines,” he told host of Morning Starr Francis
Abban.

Majority of Ghanaians went to bed without power
Wednesday evening after what appeared to be a
nationwide blackout hit the West African nation.

The lights went off around 9pm GMT.

The last time a nationwide blackout hit Ghana was
in January 2016 as a result of system failure.

The Electricity Company of Ghana has blamed the
nationwide power outage being experienced in the
country on the loss of power supply from GRIDCo.

As of Thursday morning, several parts of the
country are still without power.

Speaking to Starr News on the development, the PRO
for the ECG William Boateng said they lost the
feed from GRIDCo unexpectedly.

Ing. Amuna however explained that the power outage
was caused by some disturbances in the power
system around 9pm Wednesday resulting in some
generators in the country going off.

According to him, the problem is being fixed and
that they are “about 70 percent through with the
restoration” and that they “hope that by 10am
everyone should have power.”

Source - Starrfmonline.com

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