Personnel of the Afienya District of the Electricity Company of Ghana Limited on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, discovered that one customer had connected electricity to 33 other structures within the same vicinity at Gbetsile, a suburb of Greater Accra Region.
From September 2022 to February 2023, the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Tema Regional Office, found a total of 6,491 illicit connections activities on its meters in the region.
The Tema Region of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) says it will sustain the nationwide revenue mobilisation exercise, having achieved 60% of its target.
Staff in the Krobo District of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Limited, under the Tema Region on May Day to, 2023, took it upon themselves to fill potholes on some roads within Somanya.
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is cautioning the general public, especially persons and organizations who are preventing staff of the company from getting access to their meters to desist from the act.
The University of Environment and Sustainable Development in Somanya has been disconnected from the national grid for failing to pay an amount of GH¢900.000 to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) for power consumed since its inception 3 years ago.
The Tema Region of the Electricity Company of Ghana Limited has disconnected 310 customers, mainly for non-payment of electricity consumed.
The Revenue Protection Unit of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Tema Region, has been tasked to recover over GH¢11.5 million debt from customers for the year 2023.
Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Tema Region, has attributed the recent power outages being experienced in the Ada, Ningo, and Prampram areas to faulty 33kv underground cables at Dawhenya.
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has launched an investigation into recent incidents of cable cuts in the Tema region.
From the latter part of 2021 to 2022, Krobo district under Tema region of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) stood out as a hot bed of threats, agitations, and disruptions amongst all the operational areas of the power distributor.
The Management of the Electricity Company of Ghana, Tema Region, has appealed to the people of Manya and Yilo Krobo to exercise patience as its engineers speed up work to rectify network challenges in the area.
The management of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) on Thursday said it was working to rectify some challenges with the Nuri prepayment system (one of ECG’s smart-prepayment systems).
The amount covers five major projects undertaken from January to June 2021.
The projects include the construction of a link between two of the main overhead sub-transmission cables to enable the transfer of load from one feeder to the other in case of repair works, and to ensure uninterrupted power supply.
The Tema Regional Engineer of the ECG, Mr. Emmanuel Appoe, told the Daily Graphic yesterday that the beneficiaries of the project were Communities 12, 11 and parts of Community Six.
Restoration
He indicated that other projects had to do with the replacement of faulty underground sub-transmission link cables between two substations.
This, he explained, was to ensure that areas such as Communities Five, Six and 10 would have better supply of power.
"In some areas, the company realised that the load on the available transformers was getting too high, hence resulting in low voltage to customers in the catchment area," he said.
Mr. Appoe said a number of transformers were added to the existing ones serving communities such as Power City and surrounding areas at Prampram, Community 19 and behind the Emef’s Estate.
He said GH¢142,141.92 out of the total expenditure was invested in the upgrading of undersized conductors serving Community 8 and its environs.
Mr. Appoe, who also doubles as the acting General Manager for the Tema Region, said the ECG was committed to its mission of providing safe, quality and reliable electricity services to support Ghanaians and to live up to their mandate.
He appealed to developers and the general public to desist from encroaching on the right of way as far as electricity network installations were concerned.
Overloaded transformers
Mr. Appoe admonished the public to stop illegal connections and urged residents to report such suspected cases to the company.
He said illegal connections were one of the main reasons for transformer overloads, which led to low voltages and sometimes total breakdown of transformers, which plunged customers into power outages.
Source: www.graphic.com.gh
