{"id":610189,"date":"2019-04-25T19:21:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T19:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday, 25 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n2019-04-25\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/1847"},"modified":"2019-04-25T19:21:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T19:21:14","slug":"pds-announces-more-power-outages-to-begin-friday-april-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/25\/pds-announces-more-power-outages-to-begin-friday-april-26\/","title":{"rendered":"PDS announces more power outages to begin Friday, April 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday, 25 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2019-04-25<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/18471221.295.jpg\" alt=\"PDS   Black Out\" title=\"PDS   Black Out\" width=\"295\" height=\"223\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Last year, Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko debunked rumours that dumsor was making a comeback.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Power Distribution Services (PDS) Ghana Ltd. has announced that it will cut off power in parts of the country on Friday. The outage will be a result of scheduled maintenance works to improve service delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The power outage will last from 9:00 AM \u2013 5:00 PM on Friday, April 26.<\/p>\n<p>The affected areas include Adentan, Dodowa, Pantang, Oyarifa, Teiman, Ayi Mensah, Abokobi, Ashaley Botwe, Agbogba, Redco Flats and Madina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPDS regrets the inconvenience that will arise out of this exercise,\u201d a PDS statement reads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, PDS released a list of areas that would experience outages. Areas including Tarkwa, Bogoso, Asawinso and Juaboso, experienced a string of intermittent power outages spanning a week.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, PDS said that the outages was by the order of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo). The request was ordered to enable GRIDcCo to construct a 330kV overhead line between Kumasi and Aboadze.<\/p>\n<p>PDS took over the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in February. Its website has since been shut down.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, ECG\u2019s Ashanti regional public relations officer, Erasmus Baidoo, told Al Jazeera that one of the major problems with Ghana\u2019s power supply is because \u201cpeople try to cheat the system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained that only approximately 40% of ECG (now PDS) customers pay their bills, causing the company to be in millions of dollars in debt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What about the 60% [of customers that don\u2019t pay]?&#8221; Baidoo asked. &#8220;Are you going to arrest everybody? Will you deny them power because they have not paid their bills?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko debunked rumours that dumsor was making a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re not in an era of \u2018dum koraaa.\u2019 The lights may go off as we are witnessing, but I can assure you that, that long period that we envisaged that our opponents think that they want to capitalize on, that period will never come because we\u2019re managing the system,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have people here to manage the system, and we can give assurance to Ghanaians that the situation now is very much under control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Thursday, 25 April 2019 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2019-04-25 Last year, Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko debunked rumours that dumsor was making a comeback. 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The outage will be a result of scheduled maintenance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":610190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PDS announces more power outages to begin Friday, April 26 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/25\/pds-announces-more-power-outages-to-begin-friday-april-26\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"PDS announces more power outages to begin Friday, April 26 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Thursday, 25 April 2019 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2019-04-25 Last year, Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko debunked rumours that dumsor was making a comeback. 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