[ 2014-12-22 ]

GRIDCo: Power cuts to reduce during Christmas season if...
Power supply to homes will improve this Christmas
season if the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) is able
to secure extra supply from neighboring Côte
d'Ivoire to support current generation capacity.

Systems Control Manager at the power transmission
company, Frank Otchere, told Joy News residential
areas and small scale businesses would have some
respite because most heavy industrial consumers
will also be breaking for the festive season.

He told Joy News' Hannah Odame last week Ivory
Coast has agreed to supply Ghana with power once
they resolve their gas supply challenges.

But he adds that is not Ghana's only plan to
improve the power situation.

"Some of the plans that we are working tirelessly
is for TICO to come up. We have also worked out an
arrangement with some industries to go down on
their load. Typically they would have been at full
load but many of them are giving us 25% cut off
from their normal supply so that demand will come
down", he explained.

Ghanaians are currently enduring a severe
loadshedding exercise blamed on faulty equipment
at the Electricity Company of Ghana and gas supply
challenges from Nigeria.

Recently the load shedding became very severe. It
was extended to industrial enclaves where
factories get six days continuous supply of
electricity followed by two days of power outage.

Source - Joy News

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