Severe power outages, known as ‘Dumsor’, have wreaked havoc on houses, healthcare services, education, companies, and livelihoods across the country.
Ordinary Ghanaians are unable to sleep at night due to the extreme severity of the dumsor, which has forced many, including pastors, to turn to social media in an attempt to find a quick remedy.
The majority of the dumsor is being borne by large manufacturing companies, hair salons, barbershops, welders, frozen food sellers, and homes, who must pay exorbitant prices for gasoline to run generators in order to maintain their businesses.
As inhabitants of Enchi in the Western North Region recently did, those who cannot afford generators, such as frozen food merchants, are limited to holding demonstrations and painfully showcasing the effects of the dumsor in their bad fish and poultry.
Ghanaians are suffering from severe power outages, but the government won’t acknowledge that the terrible dumsor has returned.
According to President John Dramani Mahama, the power interruptions are not a dumsor.
He claims that rather than a recurrence of the protracted electrical crisis, the current issue facing the nation is the outcome of ongoing system modifications.
The President’s comments came as public worry over the sporadic power supply grew. Some locals feared a return to the unpredictable power outages that had previously impacted homes and businesses around the country during his first administration, which ran from 2013 to 2016.
During a visit to the Northern energy Distribution Company (NEDCo) as part of his “Resetting Ghana” tour, he explained that the disruptions are related to a national initiative to strengthen long-term reliability and upgrade energy distribution infrastructure.
As part of a larger initiative to replace outdated and overworked equipment nationwide, President Mahama said that the government has purchased roughly 2,500 transformers.
“I’ll appeal to our people. The outages you are facing are not ‘dumsor.’ It is to enable you to get better quality and stable power. Any time transformers are being replaced, people in affected areas should be informed so they are aware their lights will be off for a while,” he said.
In the meantime, the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) reported that a fire at its substation in Akosombo caused a huge power outage that severely reduced the supply of energy to several areas, leaving most of southern and middle Ghana in the dark.
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) stated that the incident had impacted power delivery in the Ashanti Region, Central Region, and Tema enclave in a series of public notices released on Saturday, April 25, 2026.
The fire at the Akosombo substation interfered with bulk power transmission, causing disruptions in both residential areas and important industrial zones, according to ECG.
Numerous settlements in the Ashanti Region—including Abakomade, Abuakwa, Tanoso, Mim, Edwenase, Santasi, Kwadaso Estate, Sokoban, Apromase, Ejisu, and portions of Kumasi and its surrounding districts—saw outages.
Important residential and educational neighbourhoods like Ayeduase, Kentinkrono, and KNUST were also impacted.
Important parts of Cape Coast and surrounding settlements, including as Pedu, Abura, Kakumdo, Adisadel Estate, Ola, Siwdu, and the Industrial Area, were affected by the outage in the Central Region.
Important service areas were also affected, including the University of Cape Coast (UCC) enclave, Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU), and the Regional Police Station.
Factories and processing facilities were among the most severely affected in the industrial center of Tema.
Olam Grains, Sentuo Ceramics, Western Castings, Nestlé, Fan Milk, Toyota Warehouse, and Tema Steel are among the facilities impacted. Logistics hubs such APM Terminals and Reefer Terminal Asadtek, as well as port-related activities at GPHA Terminals 1 and 2, were also affected.
Communities 25 and 26, Kpone, Adom Estates, Afienya, and portions of Tema New Town are among the other Tema regions impacted.
Customers were reassured by ECG that engineers are working quickly to restore power supply as soon as the GRIDCo substation malfunction is fixed.
The company apologised for the disruption and said, “ECG wishes to assure affected customers that our engineers are standing by to restore supply as soon as the challenge is rectified.”
Source: newsthemegh.com