The Executive Director of the Africa Center for Energy Policy (ACEP), Ben Boakye, believes that the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) is making it difficult to be regulated hence the letter that the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has written to the Minister of Energy.

He said that the GRIDCo letter to the Minister is only an attempt to document the failure of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to act appropriately. He said this while commenting on the letter that GRIDCo wrote to the Minister of Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, highlighting their concerns against the failure of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to provide the load-shedding management timetable by following the instructions issued by the National System Control Center (NSCC).

Mr Boakye said on the mid-day news on 3FM with Beatrice Adu “I am not surprised, these are issues that are known to all the players, so I think what GRIDCo is just trying to do is to document that these people are not heeding to the plan that they put out.

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“They want the Minister to take direct responsibility and call all the others to order. That is essentially what they have done.”

He added “This gives a feeling that ECG is becoming ungovernable in our space. They are supposed to be regulated by the regulator and also to see GRIDCo indicate, there are L.Is or provisions that actually state that when they inform the ECG to protect the infrastructure they should act accordingly? So why they have refused to actually act to save the grid, it can only be guessed which is not good for the maintenance of the infrastructure that we have spent so much money on.”

By: Laud Nartey