POWER OFF 24 HOURS IS DEGRADING

POWER OFF 24 HOURS IS DEGRADING

The electricity company of Ghana has declared their intention of switching to a new 24 hours load shedding timetable if the current energy rating power does not get better.

It has therefore been indicated that the new 24 hours timetable will provide subscribers with a day and night power off and followed by a day and night power on. This development is as a result of shortage of energy generating power rating between 550 and 600 megawatts. (Declared by Mr. William Boateng PRO, ECG)

But it must be stress that the situation is one of a negative blast that a country like Ghana must resort to factoring the current economic crises. Apparently productivity would be much affected if this move is adapted. workers that rely on the electrical energy and probably cannot afford a plant would have to halt working in such instances. The worse of the condition is that, the new timetable does not presume any time bound to have the light go off or on to help workers engage work in the appropriate hours.

In such a case, revenue would be reduce by a certain percentage since zero work would be achieved by entrepreneurs in the affected areas. The current economic states of the country must not give chances that call for worse situations.

Therefore the ECG, the government coupled with the Ministry of Energy, Gridco and all other private institutions under the energy sector pooling resources together must find a profound solution to ensure a redraw in this venture. I will therefore applaud the government for cutting a sod of a 1000 megawatts estuary project in Ada in the Greater Accra Region.