ECG Board, officials pay familiarisation visit to Alpha TND factory

The Board of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) led by its Chairman, Keli Gadzekpo, and some officials have paid a one-day familiarisation visit to the factory base of energy and power distribution resource company, Alpha TND Limited, located at Prampram in the Greater Accra region.

Mr. Gadzekpo was accompanied by Board members; Mr. Bernard Sackey, Alhaji Amadu Kaleem, John Kojo Arkorful; Director Customer Services, Mr. Abraham Anokye Abebrese; GM Metering; Mr. Hesford Quaye Larbi; and Board Secretary, Mr. Apeagyei Apeakorang.

The visit offered the ECG Board the opportunity to take a full tour of the facility and be abreast with the general operations of Alpha TND as well as the level of standards of the company's manufacturing work.

Mr. Pankaj Bhati, Chief Executive Officer of Alpha TND led the ECG delegation throughout the tour, visiting the production area, testing and control area, packaging room and warehouse within the company’s production enclave.

The visit was to engender a strong partnership between ECG and local businesses within the power sector supply chain.

The ECG Board Chairman and the entire delegation were impressed by the level of standards and quality at the factory and encouraged the management to maintain the very high standards set by the company for the admiration and emulation of others.

The ECG officials with the assistance of the management of Alpha TND, also seized the opportunity to plant trees as part of the company’s eco-friendly policy to uphold high environmental conservation standards.

Alpha TND Limited is a multinational company in the power sector incorporated under the laws of Ghana in the year 2012.

Alpha TND Limited envisages to establish itself as a technically competent and financially strong professional company in emerging markets adding significant value for stakeholders.

The company's area of operations include EPC – turnkey projects, energy meter manufacturing (Smart/Prepayment and Credit Meters), trading in power generation, transmission and distribution equipment, retail of electrical goods (LEDs, fan, house wiring, etc.) and management consultancy.

Alpha TND currently operates in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Togo, Mali, India and Dubai and has supplied more than 1.2 million energy meters from the factory with a capacity of 760,000 energy meters per annum.

According to the CEO Pankaj Bhati, the company’s product failure rate has been less than 1% within the last 10 Years.

“Our technology partners, Secure Meters Limited, an Indian multinational company, has 33+ years experience in metering with an installed base of more than 60 million meters worldwide (more than 10 Million smart & prepayment meters) offered in 76 countries across the globe,” he revealed during the briefing to the ECG officials.

The company has received several international awards and regeneration including the “Queens' Award-UK”, “DSIR Award for R&D”, and “European Smart Metering and Smart Grid Award”. In Ghana, Alpha TND was adjudged the Meter Manufacturing Company of the year at the 2020 Ghana Manufacturing Awards.

Currently, Alpha TND can boast of 150 direct Ghanaian employees and more than 200 indirectly involved in the ancillary activities (Projects, Retail, Solar, Supply). The company has also embarked on training and capacity building on the electrical system for more than 500 technicians/engineers.