GRIDCo

Address

Headquarter Address:

Ghana Grid Company Limited

P.O. CS 7979

Tema

Ghana

Phone:

(+233) 30-3304818 (+233) 30-3310310 (+233) 30-3660049 (+233) 30-7011185

Fax:

(+233) 302-676180

Web:

http://www.gridcogh.com/site/index.php

EMail:

gridco@gridcogh.com

Description

Main Geographic Focus:

ECOWAS Country

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Mission

GRIDCo was established in accordance with the Energy Commission Act, 1997 (Act 541) and the Volta River Development (Amendment) Act, 2005 Act 692, which provides for the establishment and exclusive operation of the National Interconnected Transmission System by an independent Utility and the separation of the transmission functions of the Volta River Authority (VRA) from its other activities within the framework of the Power Sector Reforms.

GRIDCo was incorporated on December 15, 2006 as a private limited liability company under the Companies Code, 1963, Act 179 and granted a certificate to commence business on December 18, 2006. The company became operational on August 1, 2008 following the transfer of the core staff and power transmission assets from VRA to GRIDCo

Mission

To provide open access, non-discriminatory, reliable, secure, and efficient electricity transmission services and wholesale market operations to meet customer and stakeholder expectations within Ghana and the West African Sub-region, in an environmentally sustainable and commercially viable manner.

Projects

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Activities

GRIDCo’s main functions are to:

Undertake economic dispatch and transmission of electricity from wholesale suppliers (generating companies) to bulk customers, which include the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), Northern Electricity Department (NED) and the Mines;
Provide fair and non-discriminatory transmission services to all power market participants;
Acquire, own and manage assets, facilities and systems required to transmit electrical energy;
Provide metering and billing services to bulk customers;
Carry out transmission system planning and implement necessary investments to provide the capacity to reliably transmit electric energy; and manage the Wholesale Power Market.

The establishment of GRIDCo is intended to develop and promote competition in Ghana's wholesale power market by providing transparent, non-discriminatory and open access to the transmission grid for all the participants in the power market particularly, power generators and bulk consumers and thus bring about efficiency in power delivery.

Type

Energy supply industry

Type of bussines

Retail

Field of Expertise

Distribution and Transmission Network
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