The Africa Sustainable Energy Centre has urged stakeholders and the public to shift attention away from demands for a load-shedding timetable and instead focus on addressing the root causes of Ghana’s recent power disruptions.
According to the Centre, introducing a timetable at this stage could normalise a problem that should rather be tackled through stronger planning, coordination, and improved system design.
Executive Director of ASEC, Ing. Justice Ohene-Akoto, said the current challenges should not be managed through scheduled outages but resolved through urgent reforms.
“The current situation is not one that should be managed with timetables, but one that must be resolved at its root,” he stated.
He added that this was not the time to institutionalise outages, but rather a time to strengthen the system through robust redundancy measures that prevent faults from escalating into widespread blackouts.
ASEC maintained that the recent disruptions were not primarily caused by inadequate generation capacity, but by operational gaps in the transmission and distribution chain.
The Centre identified the lack of redundancy in critical infrastructure as a major weakness, noting that the absence of backup systems leaves the national grid vulnerable whenever faults occur or during retrofit works.
ASEC also highlighted the critical role of Electricity Company of Ghana in restoring stability, saying the utility company must ensure that all technical interventions are carried out with built-in safeguards to maintain uninterrupted supply.
Among the urgent measures proposed by the Centre are the temporary suspension of ongoing retrofit works until normalcy is restored, immediate integration of redundancy across critical systems, stronger planning and coordination of infrastructure upgrades, improved system monitoring, and better public communication.
The organisation stressed that reliable electricity systems are built on resilience, and resilience depends heavily on redundancy.
It further called on GRIDCo and the Ministry of Energy and Green Transition to strengthen oversight and ensure redundancy planning becomes a standard requirement in future operations and infrastructure projects.
ASEC said it remains committed to supporting Ghana’s energy sector through research, policy advocacy, and technical expertise aimed at building a reliable and future-ready power system.
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