Ghana electricity Disco going digital to tame power theft
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has concluded plans to deploy Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensors across its systems to fight power theft across the country. This is as fact check has shown that several Discos in Nigeria have resorted…
Ghana snubs US withdrawal of $190m, maintains revocation of Discos’ deals
Barely less than one week after the United States of America (USA) pulled out from its earlier pledged $190m support for Ghanaian electricity sector development following the revocation of Discos concessions, the government has snubbed the pullout and went ahead…
Backfire as US withdraws $190m concession to Ghana over sack of Discos
Barely one week after the Government of Ghana cancelled Discos concession deal on grounds of irregularity in payments and poor service delivery, the United States government has cancelled the second tranche of the funds made available to Ghana under the…
Ghana sacks Discos over poor performance, financial irregularity
At a time the Nigerian government is playing hide and sick with electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) upon sustained poor quality of services in more than five years of concession; the Government of Ghana has terminated the Concession Agreement with the…
Nigerian Discos reluctant, Ghana to complete metering consumers in March
The regime of prepaid meters for electricity consumers is spreading across emerging economies in Africa with Ghana leading in West Africa. Business Hilights Ghana Bureau chief reports that the Eastern Regional branch of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has…
Ghana takes delivery of 450MW floating gas-to-power vessel
As part of new drive to maintain steady power supply in Ghana, a private investor has taken delivery of 450MW gas-to-power vessel which arrived Ghana’s territorial waters weekend. The supplies from the vessel will be fed into the national grid…