Approve 144% tariffs hike now or risk paying more in 2024 – ECG cautions
By: Sani Abdul-Rahman The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has warned that failure to approve its proposed tariff hike would result in significant tariff increment in the next few years. In a proposal to the Public Utility Regulatory Commission (PURC), the state power distributor wants its distribution service charge increased by 144% and the adjustment […]
PURC received 10,987 complaints against ECG, NEDCo and Ghana Water in 2021
Story by Dominic Hlordzi and Mabel Annang The Public Utilities Regulatory Commission, PURC received ten thousand, nine hundred and eighty-seven complaints from utility consumers last year. Customers of Electricity Company of Ghana, ECG submitted the highest complaints. The Director of Regional Operations at PURC, Alhaji Abukari Jabaru who disclosed this at a training programme for […]
NMC appeals to ECG to spare GBC in its disconnections
By Roselyn Gayaglo & Adiza Bawa Chairman of the National Media Commission, Yaw Boadu Ayeboafo has appealed to the Electricity Company of Ghana, ECG to hasten slowly with its disconnection process when dealing with GBC. He called for a Tripartite Committee consisting of GBC, ECG and the Public Utility Regulatory Commission, PURC, to negotiate how […]
ECG Senior Staff up in arms against extension of MD’s Contract
Dominic Hordzi and Mabel Annang The Senior Staff Union of the Electricity Company of Ghana, ECG says they will resist any attempt to extend the contract of their Managing Director Mr. Kwame Agyemang Budu who was due for retirement on the 17th, February, 2022. Addressing a News Conference in Accra, the General Secretary of Public […]
