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GRIDCo announces ‘Dumsor’ in parts of Accra

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The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has served notice that customers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), in some parts of the Greater Accra Region will experience power outages due to the reconstruction of power transmission lines.

According to GRIDCo, the decision is due to a project to re-construct transmission lines from the Achimota sub-station through Avenor to the Mallam sub-station.

The company explained that the work which involves removing two 161Kv transmission lines on Saturday, April 9, 2022 is expected to be completed on Thursday, June 30, 2022.

The announcement was made in a statement from GRIDCo dated Friday, April 8, 2022.

“The outage is to enable GRIDCo to upgrade the transmission capacity on each line. This important exercise is to meet the growing demand for electricity in Accra and its environs”

“The outage will affect customers served by the Electricity Company of Ghana’s (ECG) distribution systems crossing these transmission lines (between the Achimota Substation at Dzorwulu and Avenor in Accra) during the day, for the stated period.”

“GRIDCo however apologises for any inconvenience caused during the period,” the statement concluded.

Below is the full statement:

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