See the areas that will be affected by ECG's planned maintenance today, April 19

Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) initiated a series of planned and emergency maintenance works on Sunday, April 14, with customers across the Tema and Ashanti region areas expected to experience power cuts. The move comes as the power distributor struggles to stabilise the grid in the Ashanti West Region, where a string of severe network failures, including collapsed high-tension poles, plunged several major communities into darkness throughout Saturday.

Residents and businesses in the Tema enclave are expected to experience a scheduled power cut from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Areas to be affected include Philipkope, Greenstone Junction, Perftech, Ataa Mensah, Teye Kwame, and the Afienya Youth Centre. An eight-hour emergency operation is underway in the heart of Kumasi, with technicians on-site at the Bantama Race Course Market, working against a 5:00 pm deadline to resolve "urgent network issues". In the Ashanti West Region, a catastrophic failure at Ohwimase Hilltop saw multiple high-tension poles snap, severing power to the Seed Company, Old Town, and surrounding neighbourhoods. The St. Hubert Feeder triggered outages in Lasab Junction, Odeneho Kwadaso, and Mount Olivet School. The Guinness 1 Feeder cut supply to the Ahodwo Roundabout, True Vine Hotel, and parts of Nhiyaeso.

The power distributor expressed regret over the timing of these disruptions but maintained that the stability of the national grid was at stake. The ECG assured affected customers that engineers were "working diligently to rectify all faults and restore supply as swiftly as possible". The company extended its apologies to the thousands of customers impacted, acknowledging the "inconvenience caused by both the scheduled maintenance