ECG ought to ensure effectiveness after rebate – PURC

The utility regulator, PURC says it will still hold the Electricity Company of Ghana(ECG) in check to conform to standards despite the current rebate given to its customers.

“What we have to do as a regulatory body with the requisite benchmarks in the system we’ll do it; for us we don’t have any issues with the rebate they are giving, but they should do the right thing,” Director of public Relations and External Affairs, Nana Yaa Jantuah insisted in an interview with Fiifi Banson on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa 102.3 FM Monday.

Jantuah wondered how ECG will manage its business smoothly after the rebate having requested initially for a higher rate in tariff which the regulator reduced to move at par with current economic trends.

Ghana Water Company Limited and the ECG initially requested for 400.2% and 128.6% of tariff increment respectively, but an agreed rate of 67% and 59.2% was granted them.

After a successful negotiation of reliefs for electricity consumers,” residential users who spend between 0-50 units have had 45% increment while 51-300 units users will see a 50% increment. Those who spend between 301- 600 units will experience 59.2% increment.

However, Jantuah says notwithstanding the reliefs being given by power distributor, “at the end of the day we’ll make sure load shedding should not come back, and outages in the system would also be minimized.”