The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has attributed recent power outages in parts of Ghana’s Ashanti Region to equipment failures, cable faults and infrastructure upgrade works affecting transmission and sub-transmission networks.
The explanation was given at a Regulatory and Reliability Performance Monitoring Meeting held at ECG’s Boadi office in Kumasi on Friday, October 16, 2026. The meeting was attended by officials from ECG and the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC).
PURC’s regulatory monitoring programme assesses the reliability and quality of electricity services. The session also considered operational difficulties facing the power company and examined compliance with service delivery standards intended to protect consumers.
The General Manager of Ashanti Sub-Transmission was represented at the meeting by Ing. James Mensah Yevunya, ECG’s Manager for Network Maintenance.
Ing. Yevunya said the immediate supply problems had followed two current transformer (CT) blasts on the network of Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo), as well as a cable fault at the Ridge Bulk Supply Point (BSP).
He added that infrastructure improvement projects being carried out by both GRIDCo and ECG had created further operating constraints during the same period.
GRIDCo is upgrading its transformer capacity from 50/66MVA to 120/145MVA to provide power to the Ridge BSP. At the same time, ECG is installing new 8-way 33kV panels at Ridge.
The new panels are intended to handle the additional capacity from GRIDCo’s upgrade and support more effective distribution of electricity.
Ing. Yevunya assured PURC that ECG was accelerating its installation work. He said this would allow the company to receive and use the increased capacity once the upgrade was completed, helping to improve electricity supply for consumers across the region.
The Ashanti Regional Manager of PURC, Mr. Edward Boduah Kingston, urged ECG to provide the Commission with regular updates on infrastructure projects and operational developments.
He said timely information would help ensure that the public received accurate updates about the condition of electricity supplies.
Mr. Kingston also called for ECG’s Public Relations office to be given adequate resources. He said stronger engagement between the office, the media and PURC was needed to explain technical operations and service difficulties in terms consumers could easily understand.
By Benjamin Aidoo
