Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana, Kwame Agyemang-Budu says the ECG has installed the use of drones to monitor and review network systems to help curb the major challenge of vegetation interference as well as identify other weak spots of prompt rectification.
Kwame Agyemang-Budu affirmed this when he commissioned a GH¢55million primary substation at Mpraeso to end erratic power supply experienced in Kwahu ridge area and Kwahu Afram Plains of the Eastern Region.
This initiative, according to the power distribution company, is expected to further reduce outages to a large extent and increase customer satisfaction.
Prior to the construction of 2×10MVA 33/11KV Mpraeso Primary substation, these areas were supplied from the Nkawkaw Bulk Supply Point (BSP) with only two feeders; the mountains 11KV and Donkorkrom 33KV, resulting in a frequent outage in the entire enclave whenever there was a fault on the mountain feeder.
Kwame Agyemang-Budu indicated that the facility will cater to the rapid load growth on the Kwahu ridge and the Farm Plains enclave to ensure reliable power supply to customers and minimize outages.
He added that the average supply interruption has seen a 52% reduction owing to huge investments made in the power distribution sector by the government.
He further specified that “It will reduce the length of HV Circuits thereby, reducing technical loses, ensure the availability of excess power required for both present and future Investment, enhance the customers end voltage in the supply Communities and afford the company the opportunity to link the various 11KV feeders into a ring system on the Kwahu ridge to ensure system flexibility”.
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