General News of Sunday, 17 March 2019Source: citinewsroom.comWe’ll look into reasons for recent blackouts – PURCMami Dufie Ofori, Executive Secretary of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC)The Executive Secretary of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC), Mami Dufie Ofori, has said the commission will look into the reasons given by the Power Distribution Services Limited (PDS) for the recent power outages. Responding to the issue, Mrs, Ofori said: “We are working with systems that break down all the time. The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has served notice that households should expect power cuts over the next few days after it advised PDS to begin the redistribution of power. This past week marked the fourth time in three years that Ghana has faced near-total grid shutdowns. Also allaying load-shedding fears, the Director of Communications at PDS, William Boateng said, “we have enough generation at our end.

Source: GhanaWeb March 17, 2019 12:33 UTC