The Ashanti Sub-transmission team of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has carried out extensive, free maintenance on a substation at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). This substation had not undergone any maintenance for over 40 years until the recent intervention by the ECG.
The maintenance, which took place on Friday, September 20, 2024, near Unity Hall, included the installation of a new battery and rectifier by ECG engineers. These installations are aimed at improving the substation’s protection, control, and indication systems to ensure its effective operation.
General Manager of Ashanti Sub-Transmission, Ing. Peter Fletcher, assured that “This was merely the beginning of the positive initiatives ECG has planned for the university.”
According to him, the gesture, which forms part of ECG’s corporate social responsibility plans, was to reciprocate training; the majority of ECG engineers received KNUST.
“As a corporate citizen, ECG has realized that about 85 percent of its engineers and non-engineers are being trained by the institution.”
Meanwhile, the Ashanti East and South line maintenance teams seized the opportunity to fortify the network leading to the substation as jumpers on the line were either repaired or reinforced.
SOURCE: https://dew360.net
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