‘Dumsor’ will not be returning – Power utilities assure
The companies said the current power challenges had to do with transmission and distribution, and that a lot of work was being done to resolve them
Jonas Danquah 
Heads of companies in the power generation and distribution sector in Ghana have assured the public of reliable power supply to meet its demands.
They said the recent power outages and the total blackout experienced last Sunday were not a return to the regime of irregular power supply, popularly known as ‘dumsor’.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Grid Company Ltd (GRIDCo), Mr Jonathan Amoako-Baah; the Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Mr Kwame Agyeman-Budu, and the CEO of the Volta River Authority (VRA), Emmanuel Antwi-Darkwa, at a meeting with the Minister of Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, last Wednesday, reiterated their commitment to sustainable power supply.
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At the meeting with the companies, the heads agreed that the recent challenge in power distribution, which had led to a total system shutdown, was due to a technical fault, and that it was not the resurgence of dumsor, a statement issued by the ministry and copied to the said.
The leadership of the utilities also gave an assurance that the generation capacity of the country was beyond 5,000 megawatts (MW), with corresponding daily demand between 2,700MW and 2,900MW.
They explained that the current inherent challenges had to do with transmission and distribution, and that a lot of work was being done to resolve them.
