The Management Team of GRIDCo has received more education on how best to implement the Right to Information (RTI) Law. A delegation from the Right to Information Commission, led by Steven Owusu Esq., Head of Legal, Governance, Regulatory and Research explained key provisions of the RTI Law focusing on the role of the Information Officer,
From September 2022, new utility tariffs come into effect. This follows an upward adjustment of tariffs announced by the PURC on Monday 15th September. Water tariff is set to increase by 21.55% while Electricity goes up by 27.95%. Official tariff communication approved for bulk generation, transmission and distribution entities was communicated directly to entities including
The Prestea Area maintenance team on August 29, 2022, successfully rehabilitated and commissioned one of the two Auto Transformers, 10T8, which was idle for about five years, due to a faulty Circuit Breaker 10T8K at the Prestea 225kV substation. In addition, two new circuit breakers, 10T8K and 10T8D, three new disconnect switches, 10T8K-K Pantograph,
The Utility Regulator, the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission, (PURC) has reiterated its commitment to ensuring that the Ghanaian public receives quality service from the Electricity and Water Company. The PURC made this known during a Consumer Service Clinic on Monday 12th September 2022. The PURC is leading these engagements across the country to educate
GRIDCo has won the “Best Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Compliant Institution” award SOE category for the second time at the Annual Internal Audit Conference. GRIDCo’s Chief Executive, Ing. Ebenezer Essienyi also won the “Best Head of Entity” of the SOE category award. This year’s Conference had the theme, “Injecting Fiscal Discipline in the Mobilisation and
Dzifa Bampoh, a veteran Journalist and Communications Professional has joined the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) as Manager, Corporate Communications effective 1st August,2022. Asked how she feels about joining the GRIDCo Team, her response was I am thrilled to join another engineering company, supporting the executive team, communicating the relevance of GRIDCo’s engineering projects and
The West Africa Energy Programme (WAEP) has organised a training program for GRIDCo Staff and other energy sector agencies.This is a completion of training which began on Friday 5th August, 2022 and is to build staff’s capacity and further equip them with skills and knowledge.In all, twenty-six (26) GRIDCo staff participated in the training drawn
On Wednesday, July 20, 2022, a delegation from the Ministry of Energy (MoEn) comprising of the Director Power, Mr. Solomon Adjetey, along with his team, paid a working visit to the Achimota and Accra Central Substations. The purpose of the visit was to view first-hand, the status of work done on the Achimota to Mallam
The Ministry of Public Enterprises has instituted the Public Enterprises League Table (PELT), which is an innovation by the Minister for Public Enterprises, Hon. Joseph Cudjoe.It is a way to assess the performance of Public Enterprises when it comes to compliance. The maiden edition was held on Thursday, June 30, 2022, at the Kempinski Hotel,
