ECG and the on-off-on-off

Following our lead story yesterday, the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) sent a high powered team to our office to assure us and the public that there is no load shedding taking place in the country at the moment.

The team also explained the reasons for some of the outages that have been bedevilling parts of the national capital.

As far as customer relations go, we can say that was very commendable. But as we commend the company on its customer relations outreach, we would also wish to call on the company to revamp its distribution system to reduce to the very barest and acceptable minimum the incidence of power outages.

The problems, we understand are almost always from the underground or overhead cables carrying the power. We are not technical people, so we cannot provide technical solutions, but we can dare ask this question: How do they manage the cables in the industrialized countries with their mega power consumption and not have the kind of outages that we have been suffering in this small country of ours?

The answer to this question should at least provide some solution to this perennial problem of on-off-on-off...