GRIDCo Senior Staff Demand Transparency, Equity Amid Mounting Operational Challenges

The Senior Staff Association (SSA) of the Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has voiced growing concern over financial instability, operational setbacks, and governance lapses within the company, calling for renewed collaboration with management to safeguard GRIDCo’s future as the backbone of Ghana’s power transmission.

At the 7th Biennial Delegates Congress held in Tamale, the SSA highlighted the threat of embedded power generation—where businesses and individuals bypass the national grid by producing their own electricity—as a major contributor to GRIDCo’s declining revenues. This development, coupled with mounting debts, foreign exchange losses, and aging infrastructure, has intensified the company’s financial strain.

SSA Chairman, Wisdom Kojo Adenyo, stressed the urgency of a unified response: “We must work collaboratively to respond to the impact of embedded generation and other systemic challenges undermining GRIDCo’s financial health.”

Under the theme “Forging Partnership for a Resilient and Sustainable Energy Future,” the Congress brought together energy professionals to strategize on GRIDCo’s transformation. Key proposals from the SSA included securing tax exemptions for imported transmission equipment, enforcing the full implementation of the Cash Waterfall Mechanism, accelerating debt recovery—particularly from the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG)—boosting energy trading, and modernizing the national grid.

Beyond technical reforms, the Association criticized management’s recruitment practices, citing a growing trend of hiring external candidates into top roles while overlooking qualified internal staff. They argue this undermines morale, violates service conditions, and increases the wage bill at a time when liquidity is already stretched.

“This practice not only demoralizes hardworking staff but threatens the very cohesion and performance of the company,” Adenyo warned.

The SSA urged GRIDCo leadership to commit to fairness, transparency, and inclusive development to prevent further workforce disengagement, emphasizing that employee motivation is key to the company’s stability and long-term success.

“Our survival as a company and as professionals hinges on how well we respond to these challenges together,” the SSA concluded.