ECG to release load shedding timetable today

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) will on Thursday release a time table for the ongoing load shedding exercise.

The Energy Ministry has disclosed that the power rationing will be intensified due to disruption of gas supply from Nigeria following labour unrest in that country.

This means a shutdown of the Asogli Power plant which provides about 180 megawatts of energy to the national electricity grid.

This is the third time Nigeria has interrupted its gas supply to Ghana in 2014 alone but the Volta River Authority (VRA) has said it will go back to the use of crude oil to power the country’s generation plants.

The development means there will be an energy deficit of about 350 megawatts; a situation likely to intensify the current load shedding exercise in the country.

Source: Citifmonline.com