ENERGY COMMISSION TO AUDIT HOTELES, OTHERS

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The Energy Commission in partnership with the Ghana National Fire Service and the National Insurance Commission will from January next year undertake an audit of the state of wiring systems of all hotels and commercial public buildings across the country. 

The owners of any of those facilities with the wiring system aged 10 years or more will be directed to overhaul the wiring. 

Failure to comply with directive, the facility will be closed down as being unsafe for human habitation. 

A Lead Officer of the Certified Wiring programme of the Energy Commission, Solomon Sarpong, made this known in Kumasi at the certification of about 300 electricians who have successfully undertaken the certification training of the Commission.

 The beneficiaries are from the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions. The Commission has so far certified 920 electricians this year out of the one thousand 200 who applied for the training.

 In all, about 400 thousand electricians have been certified across the country since 2013 when the programme started.

 Mr. Sarpong disclosed also that the Commission plans to provide additional practical training in solar energy installation for the certified electricians very soon, to enable them to carry out an alternative energy supply by the Commission.

 He said the Energy Commission has constituted Disciplinary and Monitoring Teams who have started going around the country to ensure that electricians are complying with the legal regulations of electrical wiring. 

Anyone who falls foul, he warned, will be dealt with in accordance with the law, which involves prosecution at the law court.

 The Ashanti Regional Chairman of Ghana Certified Electrical Wiring Association Practitioners, Ben Tetteh Sowah expressed satisfaction with the certification programme of the Energy Commission since according to him, will help to sanitize the electrical wiring sub-sector.

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