See the areas to be affected by power cuts on April 19 as ECG races to fix the grid

Ghana’s main electricity distributor, the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), is carrying out both scheduled upgrades and emergency repairs today, Sunday, April 19, 2026, leaving parts of Tema and the Ashanti Region without power.

The company says the interventions are critical to stabilising a fragile grid that has suffered repeated breakdowns in recent days.

Tema shutdown

From 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, residents and businesses in the Tema enclave will face a seven-hour blackout. ECG describes this as a “planned exercise” aimed at modernising ageing infrastructure in fast-growing communities.

Affected areas include Philipkope, Greenstone Junction, Perftech, Ataa Mensah, Teye Kwame, and the Afienya Youth Centre. The company insists these upgrades are essential to ensure long-term reliability of supply.

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Meanwhile, Kumasi’s bustling Bantama Race Course Market is undergoing an emergency eight-hour outage.

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Engineers are racing against a 5:00 pm deadline to fix urgent faults that, if left unresolved, could trigger a wider collapse of the local grid. ECG has labelled this intervention “critical” to prevent further instability.

The disruptions follow a chaotic Saturday in the Ashanti West Region, where collapsed high-tension poles at Ohwimase Hilltop cut power to the Seed Company, Old Town, and nearby neighbourhoods.

Additional feeder faults worsened the situation:

St. Hubert Feeder knocked out supply to Lasab Junction, Odeneho Kwadaso, and Mount Olivet School.

Guinness 1 Feeder left Ahodwo Roundabout, True Vine Hotel, and parts of Nhyiaeso in darkness.

In public advisories, ECG acknowledged the inconvenience but stressed that the interventions are unavoidable.

The company said engineers are “working diligently to rectify all faults and restore supply as swiftly as possible,” adding that both the planned and emergency works are necessary to safeguard the robustness of the national grid.

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