We will examine the reasons for recent power outages – PURC

General News of Sunday, March 17, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-03-17

Executive Secretary of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (MUR), Mami Dufie Ofori, said the panel would examine the reasons given by Power Distribution Services Limited (PDS) to explain the recent power outages.

PDS has been subject to increased surveillance as a result of near total network shutdowns.

Power outages were attributed to the ongoing construction of the Pokuase Interchange, which involved the diversion of towers from the GRIDCo 330 kV transmission line that connects Tema to Aboadze in the surrounding area. In response to this question, Ms. Ofori said, "We work with systems that do not work. I am not going to say that I know in full what has happened and that I can testify to it. But we work with systems that break down all the time. "

"As a regulator, it is our responsibility to conduct an investigation and to know whether this is true or not, and to take the measures that are required, and that is what we take, "she added.

The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) warned that households should expect power outages in the coming days after advising PDS to begin redistributing electricity.

Last week, Ghana faced for the fourth time in three years almost total network shutdowns.

Energy Minister Peter Amewu also badured that electricity will be standardized by next week.

In addition to these challenges, PDS, which recently took over the leadership of the Ghana Electricity Company, badured that it would receive enough energy to be distributed to Ghanaians.

Also appeasing fears of shedding, PDS Communications Director William Boateng said, "We have enough generation on our side. If we are on leave, it means that we have announced a planned maintenance. "