By The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has strongly condemned the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) for its failure to provide a load-shedding timetable during the worsening power outages, commonly referred to as ‘dumsor’.
During a press briefing, Kodzo Yaotse, ACEP’s Policy Lead for Petroleum and Conventional Energy, criticized ECG for what he perceived as incompetence, attributing it to the company’s monopoly in the power distribution sector.
“They [ECG] are just lucky that they have a monopoly over the service that they provide for us. If there was competition in the distribution of power in this country, I am sure ECG would have lost all of its customers by now to a more efficient and competent power supplier.
“To the extent that ECG is exhibiting some regulatory recalcitrance and also with the blessing of the Energy Minister, who is a politician by the way and would never want to admit that we are in this fix, we may not see a timetable until we are able to isolate the political management of ECG from the technical management of ECG.”
