Out of the total number of 12,416 customers that engaged in power theft between 2019 and 2021, 1,047 culprits have been referred to the legal directorate for prosecution, the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has revealed.
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).
Oseikrom Aduanipa, a popular eatery at East Legon in Accra, has been caught by the Electricity Company of Ghana for illegal connection, and has since been disconnected from the national grid.
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has surcharged SamNort Industries, a factory near Nsawam in the Eastern Region, GH¢ 415,603.83 for illegal power connection.
The National Task Force of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Limited has cut power supply to the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) over debt to the tune of ¢49 million.
The Electricity Company of Ghana has denied media reports of an imminent load shedding exercise.
The Minister of Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has charged management of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), to include cyber security task force in its revenue protection measures.
He believes the issue of cyber security must be considered seriously in the quest to reduce revenue leakage through the use of technology.
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the Volta Region has engaged assembly members in the Ketu South Municipality as part of a strategy to build mutually beneficial relationships with strategic stakeholders.
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
