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ECG Under Billing and Grid Fire
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- Sun, Oct 18LatestUnverified — not yet reviewed
Hubtel deployed AI to help ECG identify suspected electricity theft
Hubtel's CEO has confirmed that the company deployed an AI system to assist the Electricity Company of Ghana in identifying suspected electricity theft. The disclosure adds a concrete local AI-for-utilities use case to the broader set of operational and billing pressures ECG is currently facing.
- Sat, Oct 17Unverified — not yet reviewed
ECG Faces Pressure Over Opaque Billing Adjustments, Meter Spend, and Ashanti Outages
Ghana's Electricity Company of Ghana is facing simultaneous pressure over opaque billing adjustments that consumers say amount to overcharging — prompting calls for PURC intervention — equipment and cable failures causing outages in the Ashanti Region, and questions over a GH¢42.7 million meter replacement programme. ECG has defended the meter spend by explaining that old Huawei meters are being redeployed rather than discarded, while attributing Ashanti outages to infrastructure faults rather than policy decisions.