The Ghana Grid Company, GRIDCO says its transmission in the supply of power across the country has been stable and reliable in the last two years.
At a media briefing in Accra Sunday, the director of system operations, ING. Mark Awuah Baah said this follows the completion of key transmission projects in the country.
He further stated that GRIDCO is working to ensure that demand and supply of power to customers’ matches to avoid intermittent power cuts.
According to him, currently, GRIDCO transmits power to fourteen power generating companies in the country and has completed the second major transmission links from southern to northern Ghana as well as interconnection with Burkina Faso.
According to him, the companies have “confidence to invest in Ghana because GRICO provides open access. So where ever you are, in search of generators, you can do business with any bulk customer anywhere in Ghana. So GRICO guarantees that open access in a fair manner.”
He however indicated that there is high power demand in Accra and Tema with the two cities consuming about 40% of Ghana’s power demand adding that “if we don’t reinforce the system here, it becomes difficult to stabilize the system…”
To this end he said GRIDCO has received a $17 million loan from the French Development Agency, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), to boost infrastructure works on some major transmission lines between Accra and Tema.
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