The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is upping the ante on its commitment to improving power reliability in Accra, unveiling a bold plan to fix most localised faults by the end of 2025.
At the heart of this push is a drive to eliminate the all-too-familiar unplanned power flickering and brief blackouts that have frustrated residents and businesses across the capital. On Monday, May 5, at the commissioning of a mobile substation in Tse-Addo, ECG's General Manager for Accra Sub-Transmission, Engineer Francis Kofi Atsyatsya, laid out the company’s ambitious roadmap.
According to Engineer Atsyatsya, this isn’t just a reactive move. ECG had built these upgrades into its 2025 operational plan well before the Energy Ministry introduced performance benchmarks. “We’re confident that by the end of the year, most of the power issues, outages, low voltage, you name it, will be resolved,” he assured.
The newly commissioned mobile substation at Tse-Addo is just one piece of a wider transformer capacity improvement initiative spanning both Accra and parts of the Volta Region. The company has zeroed in on six key hotspots: Lashibi, Batsona, Teshie, Nungua, Adenta, Ridge, and Denu in the Volta. These areas, ECG says, are set for major system upgrades.
Tse-Addo’s growing skyline, filled with high-rise buildings, has put serious pressure on its power supply, which currently comes from the Trade Fair substation. That long-distance transmission has been a major factor behind frequent outages and voltage drops. To tackle that, ECG has relocated a mobile substation from Agbogba to Tse-Addo to serve as a more direct, stabilising source of power.
The setup is happening in two phases: the initial installation will wrap up in about a week, and the entire project should be complete in six weeks.
If ECG follows through on this plan, it could mark a turning point for reliable electricity in Accra. Of course, the real test will be in the lights, whether they stay on.
Do you think ECG can finally get it right this time?
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