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04 Apr

ECG Disconnects 310 Clients Over Illegal Connection

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The Tema Region of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has disconnected power supply to 310 consumers for owing and engaging in illegal connections. As part of measures to increases revenue collections and to recover debts owed the power supply company, engineers from the Electricity Company of Ghana from Monday, March 20 to Friday, March 31 visited 2,344 customers to re-calibrate electric meters and correct illegal electrical connections. Speaking on behalf of the Tema Region of ECG, Sakyiwaa Mensah, the Public Relations Officer of ECG in an interaction with the media explained that, the customers’ reluctance to give access of…

03 Apr

ECG Staff, Vendors Busted Over Alleged GH¢2.1 Million Theft Granted Bail

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Ten persons, including staff of Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), accused of stealing GH¢2,143,270 being proceeds of pre-paid credit, have been granted bail. The High Court presided over by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, admitted Ali Nasiru Shaibu, a Computer Programmer at the ICT Department, ECG, to bail in the sum of GHS 4 million with two sureties to be justified. Nine others were also admitted to bail in the sum of GH¢300,000 with one surety each to be justified. They are Grace Gardiner, Chief Supervising Cashier, ECG, Kasoa, Anthony D.K Quaye and Ibrahim Baba Adamu, both technicians at Kasoa ECG office.…

03 Apr

Volta ECG Mobilises GH¢12.5m Within One Week Of Revenue Mobilisation

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Volta Regional Directorate of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has mobilised GH¢12.5 million from its debtors within one week of debt collection operation in the region. The amount realised is above the initial target of GH¢5 million, representing 250 percent of the revenue mobilisation. Mr Benjamin Obeng Antwi, the Regional Public Relations Officer, who disclosed this to the Ghana News Agency in Ho, said the second-week operation was being finalised. The ECG is embarking on a revenue mobilisation drive to retrieve a debt of GH¢5.7 billion across the country, of which customers in the Volta and Oti regions owe…

02 Apr

ECG Owes Bui Power Authority US$612 Million

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The Electricity Company of Ghana owes Bui Power Authority (BPA), the managers of the Bui Generating Station more than US$612 million, Mr. Samuel Kofi Dzamesi, the Chief Executive Officer has revealed. He expressed his disappointment in the inability of the ECG to pay the authority as the power produced and supplied to the company remained the only problem confronting the operations of the 404 Megawatts (MW) dam, situated in the Banda District of the Bono Region. Speaking in an interview with the media during a visit by Madam Justina Owusu-Banahene, the Bono Regional Minister to the dam’s plant site at…

01 Apr

TOR Cut Off From National Power Grid Over GH¢26 Million Debt

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The Tema Oil Refinery has been cut off from the national power grid over failure to settle a GH¢26 million debt owed to the Electricity Company of Ghana, a citinewsroom.com report has said. According to the ECG, the huge sum is an accumulation of unpaid power bills covering several months. The report noted that although TOR had paid about GH¢5 million of the total debt last week, the management of the refinery failed to settle the outstanding debt as scheduled. The ECG taskforce were said to have taken the entire facility off the national power grid and have since served…

31 Mar

Check Days Of No Lights In Your Area Per ECG’s ‘Dumsor’ Timetable

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The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has released its loadshedding timetable to guide consumers during the period of generation shortfall occasioned by the maintenance works on the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant. The exercise will take 14 days. ECG has, therefore, released a timetable for the period between Thursday, March 30 and Good Friday, April 7 during the erratic power supply. Source: 3News.com

30 Mar

Power Debt Owed To ECG Was Inherited, We Will Pay Outstanding Debt – Electrochem

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The management of Electrochem Limited, a salt mining company owned by Dr. Daniel McKorley, has reacted to claims that it owes GH¢300,000 debt to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). This comes after an exercise carried out in the Ada District by the ECG Revenue Taskforce, discovered that the company had owed power debt accrued over the years. But the management of the company, interacting with journalists, explained that the debt situation was an inherited one after it took over the premises. They added that the company had inherited a debt about GH¢2 million from the previous occupants of the…

30 Mar

ECG Disconnects Power To Mcdan’s Salt Company Over GH¢300,000 Debt

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A salt mining company belonging to businessman, Dr Daniel McKorley, has seen its electricity power supply cut off from the national grid due to a GH¢300,000 debt owed to the Electricity Company of Ghana, a myjoyonline.com report has said. The development follows an exercise carried out by the ECG Revenue Taskforce, which embarked on some checks within the Ada District. The power distribution company said that the meters installed at the premises of Electrochem Ghana Limited, the salt-mining company, have been tampered with, forcing the ECG to cut off power supply to the company. The External Communications Manager of ECG,…

30 Mar

ECG To Release Timetable As Ghana Gas Shuts Down For 14 Days

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The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is said to be preparing to release a schedule to guide consumers as gas supply to some power plants is going to be affected for the next 14 days due to a shutdown of the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant in the Western Region. The routine shutdown, which began on Saturday, March 25, is expected to ensure “the reliability of the gas processing plant and transmission infrastructure”. “The shutdown will affect gas supply to some power plants and will ultimately result in interruption of power supply to some consumers,” a statement from the Ministry of Energy on…

28 Mar

Hospitals In Volta, Oti Jointly Owe ECG GH¢8.9m

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Major hospitals and other health facilities in the Volta and Oti regions owe the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) about GH¢8.9 million, Mr Michael Buabin, the Acting Volta Regional Manager of the company, has disclosed. The debt, which spans 2021 till date, has accrued over the years by the Ho Teaching Hospital (HTH), Regional Hospital, Municipal and District hospitals, Community-based Health Planning System (CHPS) Compound, Bungalows, Health Directorate among others. The debt owed by the Ho Teaching Hospital (HTH), Regional Hospital, municipal and district hospitals, Community-based Health Planning Services (CHPS) compounds, staff bungalows, and the Health Directorate, spans 2021 till…