The Board of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has held discussions with the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, as part of efforts to strengthen engagement with key national stakeholders and deepen collaboration on Ghana’s energy infrastructure agenda. The eight-member board paid a courtesy call on the Speaker to brief him on developments within the company […]
Energy Minister John Abdulai Jinapor has announced a key milestone in power generation efforts, revealing that an additional unit at the Akosombo Dam has been successfully restored to operation. In a brief update shared on Tuesday night, the Minister disclosed that “at 9:09 pm, the fourth unit at Akosombo Dam was successfully brought into operation,” […]
The Minister for Energy and Green Transition, John Abdulai Jinapor, has directed the Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Grid Company Limited, Ing. Mark Awuah Baah, to step aside pending investigations into a fire outbreak at the Akosombo Power Control Centre that has disrupted electricity supply across the country. Ghana travel guide The directive […]
After almost 48 hours of a major power outage countrywide, the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has explained the cause. In a statement issued Monday morning (May 9, 2022), GRIDCo explained that on Saturday, May 07, 2022, their power system experienced a system disturbance due to a faulted equipment on the Takoradi Extension–Winneba line, adding that consequently, all […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Monday, 26th October 2020, cut the sod for the commencement of work on the 64-kilometre Ashaiman to Akosombo road dualization Project. The road project, which will cost some two hundred and fifty-six million euros (€256 million), will be completed in thirty (30) months, and is […]
The Akosombo Textiles Limited (ATL) is still struggling to stand on its feet, one year after the government injected GH₵17 million into the company to resuscitate it. Currently, the company only produces for institutions on demand and struggles to keep workers at all its departments. For instance, the Weaving and the Spinning departments, which were […]
