Accra, Feb 15, GNA- As part of the Ghana Power Compact Programme the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) is illuminating 523.
68km of roads and streets in and outside Accra with high energy-efficient and durable lighting luminaires.
The scope of this activity, which falls under the Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Management Project, covers the installation of 14,287 energy-efficient luminaires on 146 selected road sections and spans 20 metropolitan, municipal, and district assemblies (MMDAs) in the Greater Accra and Eastern regions.
The Street Lighting (SL) Project is being implemented in two tranches.
Tranche One works have been completed and Tranche Two roads will be completed in April 2022, all at a cost of $13.17million.
The Tranche Two Works, comprising 345.92 km of Streets, including the GIMPA By-pass and roads that cover 20 MMDAs, are ongoing.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a United States Government Agency, is funding the project under the Power Compact Programme, signed with the Government of Ghana.
Drivers, pedestrians and other users are evidently very safe as they now use these brightly lit roads at night.
This was in a statement issued by the Communication and Outreach Unit of MiDA and sheared with the Ghana News Agency on Tuesday.
It said: “Street lighting is an essential road furniture because it ensured security at night for road users in our communities, contributes to improved road safety, and enhances the quality of life and standard of living”.
“Indeed, they have the potential to boost investments that aid economic growth and support efforts to reduce poverty.”
The statement said the SL Project will help reduce electricity consumption from street lighting by 40 per cent and reduce the cost burden on the beneficiary assemblies.
Officials from these assemblies, MiDA, and the three project contractors; Elsewedy Electric T&D (Lot 1), Prefos Ltd (Lot 2), and Process and Plant Automation Ltd (Lot 3), have embarked on a final inspection of works ahead of the handing-over of the roads and streets to the assemblies.
Source: Ghana News Agency