THE ACCRA West Region of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has installed a new sub-station at James Town in Accra to augment power supply in the area.
The Korle-Bu District Manager of ECG, Solomon Tsawe, who commissioned the GH₵508,000 4-circuits substation, said the facility is to relieve the pressure on the James Town Police Station transformer which supplies power to the indigens.
He said ECG decided to put up the sub-station to take care of frequent outagesafter it noticedthatthe load on the transformer had become too much thereby leading to unreliable power supply to the area.
“We decided to bring in this sub-station to create enough room to take on more customers and so this has been done primarily to ensure stable power supply in this area and also to increase the capacity, the availability of power supply to the area and also more importantly to ensure that our power supply to the area is reliable,” Mr. Tsawe stated.
He said the 315 kVA capacity sub-station is enough to take care of a whole township “so we envisage that this will take a very long time to be overloaded and we as a district will maintain this transformer, so there will be frequent monthly load monitoring and maintenance on the transformer.”
He, however, implored the leaders and members of the community to take proper care of the sub-station, indicating that that it would soon be fenced and putunder lock and key to keep it safe from encroachers.
Assemblyman for the area, Festus Nii Ayi Hayford, said the community, prior to the installation, was experiencing intermittent fluctuations inpower supply, a situation he said was very worrying.
“Having this sub-station here today means ECG has listened to us, and our problems to some extents have been resolved. We are hoping that it is going to be stable for us and the power supply will be okay so that the challenges we were facing would be a thing of the past,” he added.
Nii Akwei Bonso III, the Korle Wei Mantse, was particularly delighted about the project and commended ECG for coming to their aid to resolve the power challenges in the area.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak