[ 2016-11-21 ]

ECG outlines strategy for dumsor-free December polls
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has
presented an elaborate plan to the National
Security and the Electoral Commission (EC) on the
supply of uninterrupted power during next
month’s Presidential and Parliamentary
elections.

Joy News has gathered that ECG will deploy standby
teams with equipment and vehicles to all the 275
constituencies to respond to unexpected power
outages.

Also, there is a plan to have standby generators
in almost all the 29,000 polling centres to ensure
uninterrupted power supply in the event of an
outage.

Furthermore, the EC’s election Strong Room,
which is likely to be at the International
Conference Centre in Accra, will have a standby
generator with the capacity to supply power to the
facility if it is unable to rely on power from the
national grid.

According to Director of Engineering at the ECG,
Kwadwo Ayensu Obeng, although the ECG does not
anticipate a shortfall in power supply in
December, the strategy should deal with
unavoidable causes that may result in outages.

“Sometimes it is not the prevention of the
outage because it is unpredictable, but when it
does happen how fast is your response team? You
must equip yourself with the right men and with
the right tool,” he said.

He said other measures to ensure constant power
supply include positioning engineers at strategic
locations to promptly attend to emergency calls to
shorten the intervention time.

The power distributor has also deployed third
party contractors to clear trees that interfere
with overhead lines as soon as practicable.

Source - Joyfm

... go Back