Beginning today, Friday May 8, portions of the Greater Accra Region will encounter power blackouts for around five hours, the Electricity Company of Ghana has reported.
ECG says that the force blackouts is to guarantee the sheltered development of transformers from the Tema Port to the Pokuase Bulk Supply Point building site.
In a dispatch, ECG said the force slices will empower the organization to pass on certain transformers from the Tema Port to its Pokuase Bulk Supply Point (BSP) building site.
A portion of the influenced zones incorporate Tema, Klagon, Spintex, Trasacco, Dzorwulu, Achimota, and Ofankor.
“The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Limited wishes to inform the general public, especially our cherished customers in the under-listed areas that, to ensure safe conveyance of 145MVA transformers from the Tema Ports to the Pokuase Bulk Supply Point (BSP) construction site, the company will have to isolate some High Voltage overhead lines. In this regard, there will be planned outages from Friday 8th May 2020 to Thursday, 14th May 2020 between 10:00 pm and 1:00 am each day”, the company announced.
ECG referenced that any bother caused is profoundly lamented.