Emmanuel Sam, Western Regional Commercial Manager of the Electricity Company of Ghana, says the power distribution company is making frantic efforts to intensify revenue mobilization to settle debts owed to independent power producers (IPPs).
He says that consumers of electricity usually feel relaxed when paying their electricity bills, hence affecting the running of their operations.
Mr. Sam, in an interview on Beach FM’s Western Echo, underscored that to ensure efficient service delivery to customers, about 35 million cedis are needed to support ECG’s operations.
“As we speak, if the ECG is unable to pay IPPs about 400 million cedis a month, we won’t get the supply for our customers.
The Western region, as we speak, must ensure to get an amount of 35 to 40 million to support the operations of ECG. The energy business is capital-intensive, and so every pesewa counts.
Businesses are significantly okay in terms of attitude towards payments. Whatever is coming from the big companies is not enough to cover the whole ECG.
The majority of the cases we have to chase are small and medium-scale entities.”
He also advised customers to be diligent in paying their utility bills to enable the company to serve them better.
–ECG
