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Total Darkness As ECG Cuts Power To Kejetia New Market
12 May

Total Darkness As ECG Cuts Power To Kejetia New Market

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The Kumasi Kejetia New Market in the Ashanti Region has been taken off the national grid by the Electricity Company of Ghana bringing trading activities at the facility to a halt. The Electricity Company of Ghana on Tuesday cut power to the facility over outstanding debt. A trusted source at the facility disclosed to OTEC News Jacob Agyenim Boateng that, the market owes GHC5.9 million arrears to the ECG company. Traders at the market however accused management of refusing to pay the bills to ECG leading to the disconnection. A visit to the market on Thursday May 11, 2023, showed…
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Monies Don’t Get Vanished From Meters; You Pay More As You Use More – ECG Representatives
07 May

Monies Don’t Get Vanished From Meters; You Pay More As You Use More – ECG Representatives

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Two officials from the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG)Leila Abubakari, Manager, External Communications, and Kwame Afari Cheku, Manager for Billing have provided answers to questions ECG customers frequently ask about on the Sunrise show on 3FM. Tackling issues of interrupted power supply, Leila Abubakari explained that; “It is physics and it’s bound to be affected by certain elements. If your wire passes through a certain environment, it will be a challenge to stay on all the time. Sometimes trees are heavy on the wires, networks are overloaded, transformers, getting burnt, not able to reach amount of load that is demanded by customers…
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ECG Collects GH¢63.6 Million Debt From Customers
04 May

ECG Collects GH¢63.6 Million Debt From Customers

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The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has collected a total of GH¢63.6 million cedis debt between March 20 and April 20 during the nationwide revenue mobilisation exercise in the Eastern Region. The region had a target of recovering GH¢231 million cedis from its customers including state institutions such as Senior High Schools and security agencies under the special revenue mobilisation exercise. Mrs Sariel Etwire, Eastern Regional General Manager of the ECG disclosed this to the media in Koforidua. “Both Special Load Tariff (SLT) customers and Non-Special Load Tariff (NSLT) customers supported the exercise by coming out in their numbers to…
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Embark On More Customer Education – Yilo Krobo MCE To ECG
02 May

Embark On More Customer Education – Yilo Krobo MCE To ECG

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The Municipal Chief Executive of the Yilo Krobo Municipal Assembly, Eric Tetteh, has called on the management of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to embark on more education for customers within the Krobo District. The MCE made this appeal while speaking with the media after he supported staff in the the Krobo District of ECG to fill potholes in Somanya on May Day, 2023. The staff filled potholes on the Djaba road and parts of the main Somanya road with help from some military personnel as part of efforts to improve on the cold relationship between the Somanya residents…
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ECG Collects GH¢63.6m Unpaid Revenue, Discovers 32,000kw Stolen Power In Eastern Region
28 Apr

ECG Collects GH¢63.6m Unpaid Revenue, Discovers 32,000kw Stolen Power In Eastern Region

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The Revenue Protection Unit of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the Eastern Region recovered 32,000kilowatts hours of stolen power from five customers engaged in seven (7) illegal connections in Akwatia, Kade, Suhum and Koforidua during the month-long revenue mobilization exercise. Notable among the identified illegal connections is a Pub in Suhum which had bypassed a meter and a customer who connected power without authorization. The total stolen power amounted to GH¢38,000 out of which an amount of GH¢23,000 has been paid, the rest being paid in installments. This was revealed during a press conference addressed by the Eastern…
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ECG Courts Judicial Service Support To Curb Power Theft
28 Apr

ECG Courts Judicial Service Support To Curb Power Theft

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The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is working with the Judicial Service to introduce special utility courts in a bid to curb power theft cases across the country, the company’s deputy Managing Director of Engineering and Operations, Kojo Ayensu Obeng, has said. He noted that all cases of meter-tampering, meter by-passes and direct connections will be treated as theft cases and will be prosecuted as such. He added that domestic or business owners, including electrical professionals, who are found to have undertaken these illegal connections and power thefts will be liable for prosecution. The director made this known in a…
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ECG To Undertake Planned Maintenance In Parts Of Accra On Friday
20 Apr

ECG To Undertake Planned Maintenance In Parts Of Accra On Friday

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The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced that it will undertake maintenance works in some parts of the Greater Accra Region (GAR). According to ECG, the maintenance work is to allow the power distributor to improve its service delivery. The power company in a notice stated that the work is scheduled to start on Friday, April 21, 2023, from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. According to ECG, areas to be affected as a result of the exercise are; Tesano, Abeka, Alajo, Caprice, North Kaneshie, Santana market, Achobo best, Kouttam, Poly product, Kane em, Duraplast, Ashfoam. The rest are Qualiplast,…
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ECG, GRA Negotiate To Offset GH¢600 Million Tax Obligation
20 Apr

ECG, GRA Negotiate To Offset GH¢600 Million Tax Obligation

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The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is negotiating with the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) to offset about GH¢600 million of its tax obligations to the state. The company intends to write off the debt of some “sensitive” public sector institutions that have accumulated over the years Mr Samuel Dubik Mahama, the Managing Director, ECG, who disclosed this in an interview said the amount would still not be enough “as we owe GRA over a billion Ghana cedis in taxes.” ECG has so far retrieved about GH¢2.5 billion out of GH¢5.7 billion debt it intends to recover from a month-long revenue mobilisation exercise.…
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ECG Disconnects Atta Mills, Ekumfi TI Ahmadiyya SHSs; Students Abandon Dormitories
20 Apr

ECG Disconnects Atta Mills, Ekumfi TI Ahmadiyya SHSs; Students Abandon Dormitories

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The John Evans Atta Mills Senior High School and Ekumfi TI Ahmadiyya SHS in the Ekumfi District of the Central Region, have been left in total darkness after personnel of the Electricity Company of Ghana disconnected their power over debt owed for several years. The situation, is said to have compelled some of the boarding students in the hostel facilities most especially females to abandon their dormitories and sleeping with their colleagues in town at night. Some of the Students who spoke to Kasapa News Yaw Boagyan said they are afraid something bad may have happened to them because both…
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Power Theft In Ashanti Region Alarming – ECG
19 Apr

Power Theft In Ashanti Region Alarming – ECG

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The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has described as alarming the rate of power theft in the Ashanti Region According to ECG, most companies and households in the region are on the national grid but pay nothing for the company The Manager for Revenue Protection in the Ashanti Region for ECG, Ing Kofi Danso said this in an interview with Captain Koda on the Kumasi-based OTEC 102.9 FM's morning show Nyansapo on Tuesday, April 18, 2023 This was disclosed by the Head of Disconnection for ECG in the region Ing. Kofi Danso on the Kumasi-based OTEC 102.9 FM's morning show…
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