Parts Of Ghana Plunged Into Darkness

It is unclear the cause of the power outage

Some parts of Greater Accra and Central regions respectively, have been plunged into darkness Monday night.

It is unclear the cause of the power outage which has affected areas including, Mom's, Teshie, Kanda, Cape Cape Coast, Kosoa, Winneba, Apam, Mankessim, Baifikrom, Saltpond, Ajumako, among others.

Reports suggest Accra in the Greatest Accra region has also been affected by the power outage.

It comes hours after the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) assured the nation of a reliable power supply.

Report indicates that, they improving on transmission capacity, and are planning the system in such a way so that should any part of the country go off as a result of maintenance or fault, the customer should not even sense it because the remaining BSPs can come in to support. 

According to information gathered, though other energy sector projects like the Kasoa BSP, upgrade of major transmission lines between Accra and Tema and the upgrade of transmission lines in Kumasi are still ongoing and will be completed soon, government has so far worked to significantly reduce the congestion on the existing ECG feeders which will result in improved reliability of power supply to meet the growing power demand in the country.

He said the days of erratic power supply popularly known as “dumsor” occasioned by the lack of investment in the sector brought so much discomfort, inconvenience and sent lot of Ghanaian businesses on their knees are over, stressing that the current upgrade in the country’s transmission capacity will help improve the socio-economic conditions of Ghanaians.



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