{"id":176201,"date":"2015-12-22T09:52:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T09:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=176201"},"modified":"2015-12-22T09:53:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T09:53:03","slug":"ecg-to-meet-stakeholders-over-electricity-supply-schedule-during-yuletide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=176201","title":{"rendered":"ECG to meet stakeholders over electricity supply schedule during yuletide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has told <strong>Citi Business News<\/strong> it is yet to decide on a schedule for the festive season following recent developments within the power sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;BdpTeFyz4l167gZWfvWlaXGKlbMqTBat&#8221;]There have been growing concerns over the availability of power during the yuletide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the power barge is said to have commenced power generation, the Ghana Gas Company is facing an imminent shut down on December 25 due to a 10.5 million dollar debt accruing from unpaid facility insurance and a faulty compressor which requires replacement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile the Public Utility Regulatory Commission (PURC) has sanctioned increases in the prices of utility with consumers already expressing their displeasure at the development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But speaking to <strong>Citi Business News<\/strong>, Public Relations Manager at ECG, William Boateng, said a decision on a time-table for the festive period will be arrived at after a stakeholders meeting scheduled for later today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe have seen an improvement in the generation but we are unable to tell you the projection ahead unless we hear from our supplies, I am not with generation but based on what GRIDCO is telling us, Mr. Boateng said.<br \/>\n\u201cUntil all stakeholders meet, then we will come out with a statement, ECG alone cannot how we are going to handle the holidays,\u201d He added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has told Citi Business News it is yet to decide on a schedule for the festive season following recent developments within the power sector. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;BdpTeFyz4l167gZWfvWlaXGKlbMqTBat&#8221;]There have been growing concerns over the availability of power during the yuletide. Although the power barge is said to have commenced power generation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":34785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,4],"class_list":["post-176201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-psychiatric","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}