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GCAA to ensure uninterruptible power
supply at KIA
Accra, Jan. 18, GNA - The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA)
is working towards ensuring uninterruptible electricity
supply to key areas of the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
This would ensure that a power outage from the city mains do
not in any way affect power supply to these areas.
Mr Simon Allotey, Acting Director General of the GCAA in
charge of technical, said this on Wednesday, when electrical
facilities at the Airport City (KIA) in Accra were handed
over to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
He noted that as the international airport of the country,
the KIA easily attracted attention from the international
community, adding that interruptions of electricity supply
was, therefore, the last thing that had to be allowed to
happen
Mr Allotey said since it took some seconds to switch on
stand by generators whenever power supply from the city
mains was cut off at the KIA, a system that prevented even
such brief interruption was the best.
He noted that the GCAA and the ECG had long standing cordial
relations, adding that with plans afoot to make the KIA an
aviation hub, collaboration between the two organisations
was most important.
Mr Jude Adu-Amankwa, Managing Director of ECG, said the ECG
sought to form a joint committee with the GCAA to prevent
future power outages.
“We are concerned that any outage at KIA has dire
consequences”, he said, adding that the ECG was confident
that it’s take over of the Airport City electricity supply
would ensure better services.
The Airport City Project was originally conceived in the mid
1990s as part of the 13 redevelopment schemes for the City
of Accra.
The project proposal is to develop a miniature business city
complex and is a complementary infrastructural development
for the Government of Ghana*s Gateway programme. The project
is located on 16 hectares parcelled into 29 individual
plots.
GNA
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