Residents in areas of the Greater Accra Region will begin to experience power outages today, Monday, May 10, 2021.
The eight-day exercise is scheduled to conclude on May 17, 2021.
In April, the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) issued an eight-day timetable for certain power outages in several areas of the national capital.
The power distributor clarified that the timetable was necessitated by continuing construction on the Pokuase Bulk Supply Point, which required the need to shut down the transmission line, affecting the Mallam Bulk Supply Point, which supplies power to several households.
Power would be down between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., as well as 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., in more than forty neighborhoods divided into four classes – A, B, C, and D.
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The outages will be witnessed by two alternating classes every day before the exercise is completed.
Awoshie, Nsakina, Dansoman, Ashalaja, Tuba, Abossey Okai, Dansoman, Tuba, Pokuase ACP Estates, Amasaman, Taifa, Ofankor, Kokrobite, Fadama, Israel, and Abeka market are among the places that would be impacted.
Meanwhile, impacted business owners have requested the power provider to adhere to their eight-day timetable.
They are concerned that extending the load-shedding exercise would have a negative impact on their companies.
“We are not even trained for this,” some of them told Citi News. But we’re hoping it’s so. It does not last more than eight days.”
“If we have beef in our freezers and there is a power shortage, that would actually affect us. The load shedding can last no more than eight days. We still have low voltage, so if all is well after eight days, we would be happy,” another concerned trader said.
SOURCE: ATLFMONLINE
