ECG Acquires New System To Check Illegal Connections

The Electricity Company of Ghana ECG, is also set to identify and sanction the consumers engaged in illegal connections with its newly acquired Utility Geographical Information system. The over US$ 8 million project too which forms part of the modernization utility operations of ECG under Millennium Challenge Corporation, aims

at providing a digital platform for tracking of primary and secondary substations, power lines, transformers, and the customer service wires for enhanced service delivery. Speaking at the inauguration of the Utility Geographic Information System, the Country Director of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, Steven Marmar,

said the facility would help reduce the level of field visits by ECG officials. We celebrate the inauguration of our new Information Management System to support ECG effort to manage our operations of utility to the Graphic Information System to better the plan for and manage assets as well as support strategy-driven by

decision-making for the networking improvement and operations. It is a digital platform and mapping tool that has the potential of being a backbone of modern utility operation.

Clampdown on power theft 

Recently, two companies, Samnort Company Limited and Concrete Jungle Coffee Club and Wellness, were also caught by the ECG for illegal meter bypass (illegal connection), and have since been disconnected and will also be handed over to the Police in the coming days. Samnort, a sachet water producing company, owes

about GH¢62,000, while Concrete Jungle had no debt but has since been surcharged in excess of 250,000 cedis for power theft. The Accra East Region of the Electricity Company of Ghana has discovered that both companies used power for a period spanning about 12 months unaccounted for. A special disconnection task

force from the Electricity Company of Ghana is on a mission to recover debts from clients caught engaging in meter bypass. Concrete Jungle operates a restaurant at Cantonments in Accra, while Samnort Company Ltd undertakes water production at Nsawam. The PRO of the Accra East Region of ECG, Mary Eshun-Oppong,

confirmed the reports and said both companies will be made to pay all outstanding debts plus the fine for illegal connection before the matter is handed over to the police for further action. So far, power distributor is on the heels of 27 public and private institutions heavily indebted to the power distribution company.