ECG’s Eight Day Load Shedding Begins Today

Residents in parts of the Greater Accra Region will start experiencing power interruptions from (today) Monday, May 10, 2021. The eight day exercise is expected to end on the Monday May 17, 2021. The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) released the eight day schedule in April for some interruptions in power supply to many parts of the national capital and the power distributor explained

the timetable has also become necessary due to to the ongoing works on the Pokuase Bulk Supply Point, hence the need to shut down the transmission line, which will affect the Mallam Bulk Supply Point that supplies power to many households. Power will be interrupted between the 6am and 6pm, as well as the 6pm and 6am in more than forty communities, which have also been placed in

four different groups A, B, C and D. The outages will be experienced by two 2 alternating groups each day until the end of the exercise. Some of areas to be affected include Awoshie, Nsakina, Dansoman, Ashalaja, Tuba, Abossey Okai, Dansoman, Tuba, Pokuase ACP Estates, Amasaman, Taifa, Ofankor, Kokrobite, Fadama, Israel, and Abeka market. Meanwhile, business owners in the affected areas have asked the power distributor to stick

to their eight-day schedule. They fear an extension of the load-shedding exercise will affect their businesses severely. Some of them told the media; We are not even prepared for this. But we are praying it is so. It shouldn’t exceed eight days. It will actually affect us if we have meat in our freezers and there is a power outage. The load shedding should be less than eight days. Already, we have low voltage, so if everything will be okay after the eight days, we will be happy, and one other worried trader said.