In collaboration with the Human Resource Department, GRIDCo’s Safety Management Team has taken Safety Coordinators through the second phase of the Occupational Safety and Health Academy (OSHA) Training Programme. The programme, which was held at the Plush Royal Hotel, Adenta from 12th to 15th June 2023, was facilitated by Macbens Multi-Resources Ltd. It incorporated lectures,
As mandated by Electricity Regulation, 2008, L.1937, GRIDCo has been pursuing activities towards the implementation of Capacity Market to revolutionise the Power Sector. This innovative approach to the electricity business in Ghana, aims at ensuring long-term generation resource adequacy, efficient risk allocation, and fair electricity pricing. As part of the activities, GRIDCo has been engaging
GRIDCo was adjudged the best Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Public Sector Company on Friday, 30th June 2023, at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel. This was during the fourth (4th) Africa Energy and Sustainability Summit (AESS 2022-2023) and the maiden edition of the Think Energy SDGs Awards by African Global Response Energy Environment (AGREE LTD.),
In January 2023, the Ghana Grid Company LTD. (GRIDCo) and the Regional Maritime University (RMU) agreed to formalise their collaboration through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU aims to establish a long-term partnership, based on equity and reciprocity. Finally, on June 23, 2023, the Management team of GRIDCo and the leadership
The Asiekpe 22T4 Transformer Bay Project was successfully completed by the staff of the Akosombo Area. The project aimed to address the overload situation faced by the 22T1 transformer, which supplied power to the Ho to Kadjebi corridor. In Phase One, two Dead Tank Circuit Breakers were installed to parallel the 22T1 and 22T2
A delegation from São Tomé and Príncipe on Wednesday, 31st May 2023, embarked on a Benchmarking understudy Tour of GRIDCo to understand the Energy Sector Recovery Programme, a World Bank Initiative. The Director of Finance, Mr. Samuel Nkansah gave a synopsis of the Cash Waterfall (CWF) initiative. He described GRIDCo’s business model, and the impact
A Female Engineer with Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) Ing. Abigail Acheampomaa Opoku been elected as the Financial Leader for the Youth in Engineering (YiE) of the Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE). She is also a member of the Professional Practice and Ethics Committee of the Ghana Institution of Engineering. Ing. Abigail Opoku started her
A two-member team from the Transmission companies of the Cote Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea (CLSG) interconnectivity project has paid a working visit to GRIDCo. The four (4) day visit from 2nd May to 4th May, 2023, followed initial discussions held in September 2021 about areas of collaboration between the two entities, especially
Staff of Hitachi Energy, contractors for the Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) Upgrade Project, recently visited GRIDCo to gain first-hand information on the status of the Project. The team of two (2) Project Managers from Hitachi ABB, met with the GRIDCo Project Team (from the System Operations Department and MIS Section), tasked with
The Utility Regulator, the PURC has hosted African Utility Regulators and regulatory experts as part of its Peer Review Learning of African Electricity Regulators. As part of its week-long programme, the PURC held a forum themed, “The Regulator in the Era of Economic Turbulence and the Energy Transition: Lessons from the Past and a
