Ours is a country in which stability of Electrical power is never guaranteed. There can be a power outage at anytime and anywhere. But for the purpose of this article let us use a recent example of power outage in a particular area of Ghana. Of course such power outages do not occur in only the area in question.The place is the Keta District in the Volta Region and my town of residence, Keta, to be precise; although the power outage was not limited to Keta.On Monday the 7th of May, 2012, sometime in the evening, Keta and its neighbouring towns were plunged into pitch darkness, due to a power outage. The light never came on and soon rumors started making the rounds. Finally, it was reported that a number of transformers belonging to the Keta Municial Assembly ECG got broken down. And one of their bigwigs came on a local radio station to explain the situation, promising that necessary action was being taken to restore power to the Municipality.But the darkness remained. And we remained in it.A few days later the ECG in Keta went on radio and informed the public about an alternative solution being pursued to restore light to Keta and it environs. According to the ECG bigwig who was interviewed on Jubilee radio, a mobile transformer was being wheeled from Accra and will be used temporarily to restore power to the area.We all became excited and expectant but had to wait.On the 11th day of May, 2012, power was restored at approximately 4:00a.m. Only to go off again a few minutes before 7:00a.m. Power was restored again within an hour and as I type this, it is still on but how long will it last?And that brings up an electrical question: can we develop without it?Whenever there is a power outage in any part of Ghana, business centres which use electricity for business purposes cease working, citizens are no longer able to access news and other vital programs on television and everything comes to a powerless standstill.I work for an internet Café in Keta and during the past days of power outages, we didn’t operate and we are bound to make a loss come this month ending. The same may apply to other businesses in the locality and to even individuals in their diverse business and non-business endeavors that partially or wholly depend on Electricity.That brings up the electrical question again: Can we develop without it? Never. Not in a million years. We need electricity to power our society. We need electricity to develop.Ghana, our leaders, and ECG must wake up — slumber period is over, please.