Parts of Sunyani and surrounding communities have been plunged into power outages following a fault on one of the largest transformers at the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) switchyard in the Bono Regional capital.
According to GRIDCo, the fault occurred on Transformer Two (T2), the larger of the two transformers at the Sunyani switchyard, with a capacity of 33 megavolt amperes (MVA). The incident happened on Tuesday evening, disrupting power supply to large sections of the municipality.
The outage has brought several businesses to a halt, particularly those that depend heavily on electricity for production, resulting in significant disruptions to commercial activities and financial losses for operators.
Addressing the media at a press conference in Sunyani on Wednesday, the Sunyani Area Manager of the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo), Mr Odoi Addo, said the extent of the damage was still being assessed and, for now, the company was unable to provide a timeline for restoring full power supply.
He explained that a series of technical tests had to be conducted to determine the severity of the fault, stressing that until those assessments were completed, it would be difficult to indicate when the transformer would be repaired
