Ghana Falls On Ivory Coast For Power During Easter
The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) is in discussion with its counterparts in Ivory Coast for extra power that will enable Ghanaians enjoy constant electricity during the Easter festivities.
According to the Systems Control Manager of GRIDCo, Frank Otchere, the blackouts popularly known as ‘dumsor’ will ease drastically between Good Friday and Easter Monday should talks go through.
“We are trying to get assistance from La Cote d’Ivoire for them to give us some supplementary power supply,” Otchere revealed to Accra-based TV3.
“People are going to see longer duration of power supply than it has been the past weeks.”
The GRIDCo official also hinted the current load shedding where domestic consumers endure 24 hours of blackout will ease in the third quarter of the year.
“I believe that as we go into the third quarter, we will still be shedding load but it could come down a bit because we are expecting that TICO would have come on line. In addition to that because of the rainy season load will go down.”
The current demand of power, according to GRIDCo, is pegged at 2,080 megawatts (MW) but only 1,564 MW is available.
Ghana has also reduced supply to Togo and Benin from 120MW to 50MW.
<<Print>>