The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) would soon adopt Live-line routine maintenance strategy where power would still be on while maintenance is being undertaken by technicians.
�The essence of the project is to carry out planned maintenance and fix faults on energized networks. This will benefit customers immensely because they will continue to enjoy electricity supply as we work live on our distribution networks at all voltage levels,� stated Rev William Hutton-Mensah, the Managing Director of ECG.
He announced this when he launched a GHC1.8million ultra-modern office complex for the Dansoman district of the ECG last Friday.
CITY & BUSINESS GUIDE gathered that the Live-line project has reached an advanced stage of implementation as a contract has been signed with partners to commence the setting up of systems for the project. Already, technicians of ECG are being trained for the project.
The ECG is currently receiving serious backlash from the general public for the persistent power cut that has negatively affected Ghanaians for almost a year.
But Mr. Hutton-Mensah said the embattled power company would boost its capacity to improve power supply.
The country is currently running over 200 megawatts of shortfalls resulting in the erratic supply.
Even though there is a huge supply shortage, the company is still battling with system losses caused by illegal power connections and archaic equipment.
�Currently our system loss figure stands at 23 percent from 26 percent (in 2012), and we hope to reduce it further to about 21 percent by the close of the year,� the managing director explained.
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