GRIDCo needs $1million - To replace burnt transformer
Replacement of the transformer which caught fire at Achimota in Accra, on January 26, this year, will cost the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) an estimated $1.3 million, the Director of Systems of the company, Mr Bernard Modey, has said.
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According to Mr Modey, the rehabilitation, which had already begun, would be completed early March, this year.
Meanwhile, the GRIDCo and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) are working to evacuate additional power from the Accra East sub-station at Adjirigano to the Achimota sub-station.
Until that stop-gap work is completed in about a week’s time and before the major rehabilitation work is accomplished in March, power supply to affected areas in the Greater Accra, Central and Eastern regions will remain erratic.
One of the five transformers at the Achimota sub-station was completely burnt during a fire outbreak believed to have been caused by lightning during last Saturday’s rainfall.
The incident affected power supply to many areas in the national capital, Accra, and the Central and Eastern regions.
Mr Modey said the extensive damage to the transformer required that it was replaced with a new one, which cost $1.2 million.
He said an additional cost of $100.000 would be incurred to install the new equipment.
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Power has since been restored to the affected areas, but its supply, according to Mr Modey, would remain irregular.
He explained that the Accra East sub-station had a 132-MVA transformer of which 31-MVA was being used, and that the other load would be transferred to customers.
Earlier, GRIDCo in a letter signed by its Public Relations Officer, Mr Albert Quainoo, apologised to customers for the inconvenience the situation had caused them.
Story by Naa Lamiley Bentil