- Reject applications for tariff increase, ACEP to PURC
- Customers cannot pay for ECG’s inefficiencies
The Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has asked Ghanaian Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) to reject any application for tariff increments. In an interview, the Policy Lead, Petroleum & Conventional Energy at ACEP, Justice Kodzo Yaotse, stated that consumers, through a tariff increment, cannot be made to pay for the inefficiencies of the Electricity Company Ghana (ECG).
Yaotse made this call following the Audit Report by the Ghanaian Auditor-General, which showed that several metering equipment purchased by the ECG between 2014 and 2016 worth GH¢ 59 million were left to rot. The report also showed that the ECG recorded a 24.30% loss of power purchased from the generation companies due to system losses.
”PURC has to be very firm on them to ensure that such losses are not countenanced,” Yaotse said.