The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has indicated that measures are underway to reconstruct worn-out transmission lines in parts of the country.
According to the company, some of the lines have been in use for more than 60 years and have outlived their usefulness.
In an interview with the media, GRIDCo Chief Executive Officer Ing Ebenezer Kofi Essienyi stated that his company is on track to secure the necessary funds to begin construction of new transmission lines.
“These transmissions have overlived their usefulness, we talk about the Western corridors that have to do with Prestea all the way towards Kumasi to Takoradi, Tawkwa, Dunkwa, Ayamfuri all those places.
“We are going through the motions in line with the PFM for us to reconstruct that lines. Those were built in the 60s, they are far older than I am, although I’m not that young and they served us well, we need to replace them,” Ing. Essienyi said.
He further stated that some farmers might lose some of their farmland as GRIDCo works to maintain the transmission towers and lines, and he pleaded with those farmers to be patient.
“The grid really doesn’t like too much noise, and therefore we are making a conscious effort to clear the lines, but it comes at a huge cost. And we need to count on you to let us educate our brothers whose farms these lines go through so that if there are trees in their farms we may have to cut and the little impact these may have on their cocoa trees.
“It is not with bad intentions but for the good of all of us, that is why we do those things. You can see a picture of where a line pass, it’s quite challenging, some of the lines go through very thick forest,” the Chief Executive Officer of GRIDCo appealed.
