Authorities at the University of Cape Coast have called on students to help cut down on the huge electricity bills that the university is saddled with.
The continuous paying of huge bills according to the authorities will leave the university with little revenue from their limited Internally Generated Funds to undertake the necessary infrastructural development among other pressing needs of the institution.
The Head of the Electricity Section of UCC, Joseph Wilberforce Ansah has indicated that the university can cut down the alarming increase of electricity costs through a conscious effort by students to conserve power.
Speaking at an orientation for fresh students enrolled unto various programmes of the university for the 2017/2018 academic year, Mr. Ansah indicated that the total electricity consumption of the university for 2016 was GH¢ 8,522, 171.39.
The university’s current debt, he noted stands at over GHS 17 billion in the old currency.
The University of Cape Coast is in E.C.G’s category of Special Load Tariff and therefore has its own control system.
