By Daniel Bampoe
For years, communities across Ghana’s Central Region have lived with a fragile electricity system — frequent under-voltage, unstable supply, overloaded transformers, illegal connections, and billing disputes that strained public trust in the power utility.
Towns such as Cape Coast, Winneba, Kasoa, Agona Swedru, Saltpond, Assin Fosu, and Twifo-Praso became symbols of a system struggling to keep pace with population growth and rising energy demand.
It is against this backdrop of public frustration and infrastructure pressure that the Central Regional leadership of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has unveiled a broad reform and recovery programme, signaling a shift from crisis management to long-term structural change.
The agenda was formally presented on February 12, 2026, at a media engagement in Cape Coast by the newly appointed Central Regional General Manager, Tamara Asomani-Wiafe, marking her first major policy address since taking office.
Reframing ECG’s Role: From Power Supplier to Development Partner
Rather than focusing only on electricity distribution, the new regional strategy reframes ECG as a development enabler whose performance directly affects economic growth, service delivery, business productivity, and household welfare.
Madam Asomani-Wiafe positioned the Central Region not merely as an administrative zone but as the “engine room” of ECG’s business model, with districts serving as the operational hubs that determine service quality, revenue performance, and customer satisfaction outcomes.
In 2025, ECG Central Region began shifting from short-term fixes to structural network solutions. Rather than patchwork repairs, the region invested in backbone infrastructure projects designed to stabilise voltage and redistribute load pressure.
These included the commissioning of a new switching station at Asebu, the construction of an express transmission line linking Cape Coast to the Assin Fosu Primary Substation, and the strategic rerouting of supply lines to address persistent under-voltage in Abura Dunkwa, Assin-Fosu, and Twifo-Praso.
A major engineering breakthrough was the interconnection of Twifo-Praso Township to the Akeyempim Bulk Supply Point (BSP) in the Western Region, a move that directly addressed peak-hour capacity constraints. Transformer injections across Cape Coast, Winneba, Kasoa North and Kasoa South districts, as well as upgrades at locations including the University of Cape Coast, Amamomoa and Kakraba, further strengthened the distribution network.
These projects, supported by overhead line improvements across Agona Swedru, Breman Asikuma, Winneba, and Saltpond, represented a deliberate transition from emergency repairs to long-term grid resilience.
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