No power crisis looming - GRIDCo allays fears
The Ghana Grid Company Limited, GRIDCo, says the country
has not returned to the days of severe erratic power cuts otherwise known as
‘dumsor’.
This comes after several parts of the country have been
plunged into darkness several times in the last few weeks.
GRIDCo, in attempts to take away the fears of citizens, has
explained that the power outages are only a result of some temporary challenges
in the power supply chain.
The Corporate Communications Manager of the company,
Ebenezer Amankwah, has assured Ghanaians of the company’s commitment to
improving consistency in power transmission.
“First of all, let me just allay the fears of Ghanaians
about the possible resumption of the dumsor period we experienced some years
back. Dumsor is not back and I want to emphasize that,” he stressed in an
interview with Citi Business News.
“There continue to be some challenges in the power supply
chain because we work with machines and infrastructure and as and when they
happen, our responsibility is to ensure that we are able to keep the system
back up in terms of trying to make adjustments here and there until such a time
that the issues are resolved. And that is the commitment that we have as a key
member of the power supply value chain to ensure consistency,” he added.
For some weeks now, different parts of the country have
been experiencing power cuts, with the most recent one happening on Wednesday
morning.
According to the Ghana Grid Company Limited, the closure of
an emergency valve at the West Africa Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo), is to blame
for Wednesday’s power cut.
This incident and the previous ones have caused Ghanaians
to take to social media and other platforms to raise concerns about the
possible return of dumsor, with some demanding the release of a load-shedding
timetable.
GRIDCo in a statement called for calm assuring that
engineers are currently on-site working to restore gas supply and ultimately
get the affected parts back on the grid.
Prior to this, the company had given a similar excuse for
power cuts last week.
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