Failure To Stick To Timetable Will Hurt Us - Business Owners Caution ECG

Business owners in parts of the Greater Accra Region that will be affected by the ECG planned load shedding exercise and want the power distributor to stick to their eight 8 day schedule. They fear an extension of the load shedding exercise will affect their businesses severely. The ECG, on the Tuesday, April 20 released its timetable

for the load shedding, which is expected to commence from May 10 to May 17. The company says the exercise is to also enable its engineers to expedite work on the Pokuase Bulk Supply Point. But some business owners in the affected areas told the media, We are all not even prepared for this. But we are praying it is so. It shouldn’t

exceed eight 8 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 the eight 8 days also. Already we all have low voltage, so if everything will be okay after the eight 8 days, we will be happy, one other worried trader said. ECG  has explained that it needs to

tie in the Pokuase Bulk Supply Point (BSP) to GRIDCo’s 330kv transmission line, hence the need to shut down the transmission line, which will affect the Mallam Bulk Supply Point that supplies power to many households. The power will be interrupted between 6am and 6pm, as well as 6pm and 6am in more than forty communities,

which have been placed in four 4 different groups. The outage will be experienced by two alternating groups in each day until the end of the exercise. Some areas to be affected include the Awoshie, the Nsakina, Dansoman, Ashalaja, Tuba, Abossey Okai and Dansoman, Pokuase ACP Estates, Amasaman, Taifa, Ofankor, the Kokrobite, the Fadama, the Israel and also the Abeka market.