The Tema Regional Public Relations Officer of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Sakyiwaa Mensah, has clarified that power outages recorded in parts of Lashibi and surrounding communities on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning were caused by two separate issues.
Speaking on Ahotor FM, Ms. Mensah said the outage affecting areas including Agyei Kojo, Sun City, King Solomon, Vivian Farm, Japan City and other communities was a planned maintenance exercise. She explained that customers in the affected areas had been notified ahead of the scheduled interruption.
However, she said the outage experienced in the early hours of Wednesday was caused by a technical fault on the network of the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) and was not intentional or part of a planned maintenance exercise.
“What happened this dawn is a technical fault which GRIDCo has issued a statement on. It was not intentional,” she said.
Ms. Mensah explained that ECG also loses revenue whenever there is a power outage because the company depends on electricity sales. She added that some interruptions may occur automatically as part of the system’s protective mechanisms.
“Sometimes the system goes off by itself, and if it is forced it will cause more problems,” she explained.
According to her, whenever an outage occurs, ECG conducts investigations to determine the cause before deploying technical teams to resolve the problem.
She said restoration work was ongoing, with power already restored to some affected communities while technicians continued working to reconnect the remaining areas.
Ms. Mensah urged affected customers to remain patient, explaining that ECG also depends on power supplied through GRIDCo’s transmission network.
“If any area does not get light today, then it means they are having a local fault already which needs to be fixed before power can be restored there,” she said.
The ECG official also rejected descriptions of the current outages as “dumsor,” insisting that the situation was a technical challenge being addressed by the company and GRIDCo.
“This is not dumsor, but a technical challenge which we are still working on,” she stated.
Ms. Mensah assured customers that ECG technicians remained on the ground and were working to restore electricity to all affected areas as quickly as possible.
Story by Ama Frimpomaa
