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The Managing Director of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Samuel Dubik Mahama has said that requests from the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) for load management have become an irritation to customers.<\/strong><\/p>\nHe explained that the requests have become so frequent that they are now a source of disturbance to customers.<\/p>\n
This is contained in a response to a letter written by GRIDCo to the Minister of Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, in which the former complained about ECG\u2019s non-compliance with load management requests.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is noted that, requests from GRIDCo for load management are no longer for emergency operations, but are made on a routine day-to-day basis, becoming an irritation and disturbance to customers,\u201d Mr Dubik Mahama wrote in his letter dated April 5.<\/p>\n
\u201cECG wishes to state that we will always cooperate with all relevant stakeholders including GRIDCo in order not to jeopardize the stability of the Transmission system. We however wish to reiterate our request that the Notice to our System Operators for load management should be received before 3:00pm for peak load and 4am for off-peak load management or to be received 24 hours ahead in each case, as what is happening now is no longer an emergency operation but seemingly a routine daily activity,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n
According to the power distribution company, it requires a prior notice of between 3 to 4 hours in order to comply with such requests.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is important that such requests for load management from GRIDCo are received between 3-4 hours prior to the peak or off-peak periods. This will afford us the opportunity to plan and execute the load management in such a manner that customers are not unduly affected,\u201d the Managing Director said<\/p>\n
Mr Mahama in his letter explained, \u201cFor example, customers who may have previously suffered outages due to ECG\u2019s internal faults or planned maintenance works should not suffer a double jeopardy with another outage from a load management request from GRIDCo or due to the operation of their Automatic Frequency Load Shedding (AFLS) relays installed at the BSPs. It is the planning and management of such incidents that makes it imperative for ECG to be informed well in advance about any requests for load management by GRIDCo.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that \u201cECG\u2019s reservation about the late receipt of instructions from GRIDCo on load management was tabled for discussion in a meeting involving ECG, GRIDCo and the Hon. Minister of Energy. At the said meeting, ECG requested that the notice for Load Management must be received latest by 3pm to enable ECG plan adequately.\u201d<\/p>\n
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