{"id":16599,"date":"2026-04-15T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=16599"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:44:05","slug":"power-interruptions-temporary-necessary-for-lasting-fix-energy-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=16599","title":{"rendered":"Power interruptions temporary, necessary for lasting fix \u2013 Energy minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Energy and Green Transition, Dr. John Abdulai Jinapor, has appealed to the public to bear with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) as it carries out extensive upgrade works aimed at improving power reliability across the country.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the ongoing interventions, though disruptive in the short term, are necessary to fix long-standing structural challenges in the electricity distribution system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe therefore appeal to the public to bear with ECG during this period of intensive upgrades,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, government is implementing a structured programme designed to reduce outages, improve voltage stability, and enhance fault response times across the network.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the upgrades are also intended to support the integration of additional generation capacity into the national grid as demand continues to rise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese temporary inconveniences are part of a necessary process to deliver a more reliable and efficient power system,\u201d he stated, stressing that reforms are aimed at strengthening long-term energy security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Energy and Green Transition, Dr. John Abdulai Jinapor, has appealed to the public to bear with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) as it carries out extensive upgrade works aimed at improving power reliability across the country. He explained that the ongoing interventions, though disruptive in the short term, are necessary to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":16600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3537,41],"tags":[5235,156],"class_list":["post-16599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-general-news","tag-dr-john-abdulai-jinapor","tag-ecg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16601,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16599\/revisions\/16601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}