[ 2014-09-15 ]

Load-Shedding Begins
Ghanaians have to brace themselves for another
load shedding exercise, as the Electricity Company
of Ghana (ECG) will this week release a guide for
the management of load in the country.

The time-table, which is expected to be quite
similar to the one released in April, this year.
Under the exercise, customers will be without
electricity for 12 hours and enjoy power for 36
hours.

William Hutton-Mensah, Managing Director,
Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), who disclosed
this last week to the media in Accra, said several
meetings by stakeholders took place last week to
ensure the release of a timetable this week.

He said allegations that ECG was reluctant in
publishing a load-shedding timetable was not
correct, stating that 'we have had several
meetings on the quantum of load that we are being
asked to shed.

Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, Minister of Energy and
Petroleum, last week at the meet-the-press
encounter, outlined measures the government was
taking to stabilize the country's power crisis.

He said government was working to add about 355
megawatts of power to the installed capacity after
the completion of the 110MW expansion work on the
TICO plant, Units 1 & 2 of the Kpone thermal power
plant (220MW) from Trojan Power.

Kofi Buah said, 'We are in advanced stages of
procuring a 450MW capacity fully flexible and
ready to deploy emergency power ship system to
Ghana.

'The first and second 225MW units are expected to
commence commercial operation in the 1st and 2nd
quarters of 2015 respectively.'

Source - Daily Guide

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