The Energy Commission is to conduct a nationwide audit of the country’s power transmission network, the Deputy Power Minister, John Jinapor has said.
The commission has been given a minimum of two weeks to put together a full scale report on what needs to be done to forestall a recurrence of last week’s blackout, as well as manage the incidence of faults in the system.
Most part of the country plunged into total darkness last week following a fault in one of the transmission lines.
Deputy Power Minister John Jinapor, in an interaction with the press yesterday, said :“We have tasked the Energy Commission, which is our technical advisor, to do a full systems audit of the network and they are in the process of doing that and they have two weeks within which to complete that.”
GRIDCo, he said has also secured a helicopter from the Ghana Airforce for surveillance.
“Fortunately, the Ghana Airforce has agreed to release a helicopter to us. However, due to the nature of the weather — the harmattan is so severe that visibility is very poor — we are unable to lift off with the helicopter. So when visibility improves they will conduct a surveillance of the entire stretch of line.”
