The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in the Central Region has assured to inject the sum of GH¢117 million in its operations to improve and stabilize power supply throughout the Region.

Mr. Emmanuel Lumor, the Regional Manager of ECG made the refreshing revelation at the organization's 2025 press soiree held in Cape Coast on Thursday.

The event which holds annually, sort to enlighten the media on the company's undertaken steps in the year under review, its challenges encountered, achievements and its laid down measures for an improved and efficient customer service in the Region in the subsequent year.

Speaking in an interview with Sompa TV's Eric Annan after the event, the Central Regional ECG Manager on the company's plans for 2025 recounted that, "ECG Central Region has decided to inject GH¢117 million into the system in 2025 just to improve and stabilize power supply throughout the Region."

According to him, the effort set to undertake among several others embarked upon, seizes to address the challenge of intermittent power outages often experienced in certain areas in the region.

Mr. Lumor in his submission, uncovered ECG to have carried out a number of activities in 2024 to improve customer satisfaction going forward.

He asserted ECG to have installed over 120 transformers and replaced 193,000 prepaid meters across the Region, with several maintenance works carried out on all its figures following a stakeholders meeting in 2024.

He observed that ECG in the retrospective year, extended enough power supply to a number of areas without electricity in the Region.

Mr. Emmanuel Lumor again opined that ECG has commenced the installation of 30,000 street lights across the Central Region to add to the security mechanisms in the Region, as part of the company's social corporate responsibility to the citizenry of Central Region.

On ECG's confronted challenges in its operational discharge in the Region, he observed that "the pain of the Region has to do with customers not paying their bills promptly, consistent illegal connections and people vandalising the transformers of ECG to steal its conductors," Mr. Lumor noted with grief.

The ECG Manager further beseeched customers never to feel reluctant in approaching the power distribution company whenever the need arises, as the company has given itself a mandate that once a customer pays for service connection, the customer will within five days receive the service required.

Sompaonline.com//Eric Annan