{"id":162301,"date":"2015-10-26T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=162301"},"modified":"2015-10-26T19:52:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T19:52:15","slug":"ecg-sheds-390mw-of-power-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=162301","title":{"rendered":"ECG sheds 390MW of power Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has asked the Electricity Company of Ghana to shed a total of 390 megawatts of power today [Monday].<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Gridco has requested for 390MW load relief from ECG between 06:00hrs and 18:00hrs due to insufficient power generation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Dlw2IkQgHKC6jJoclNozF1dOHzrYVNWk&#8221;]The shedding covers six regions in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are: \u00a0Accra (130MW),\u00a0Ashanti (80MW),\u00a0Tema (60MW),\u00a0Western (40MW),\u00a0Central (30MW),\u00a0Eastern (30MW) and\u00a0Volta (20MW).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The directive to the ECG is due to the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/10\/23\/power-crisis-to-get-worse-ecg-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">insufficient power<\/a><\/strong><\/span> being generated in the country following some technical challenges with the Volta River Authority&#8217;s (VRA) power plants in the Western Region and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Below is the full statement:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">GRIDco OFF PEAK LOAD RELIEF REQUEST<br \/>\nDate: 26\/10\/15<br \/>\n____________________________<br \/>\nGridco has requested for 390MW load relief from ECG between 06:00hrs and 18:00hrs due to insufficient power generation,the regions should therefore shed load as follows:<br \/>\nAccra&#8230; 130MW<br \/>\nAshanti&#8230;. 80MW<br \/>\nTema&#8230;&#8230;.. 60MW<br \/>\nWestern&#8230;. 40MW<br \/>\nCentral&#8230;.. 30MW<br \/>\nEastern&#8230;. 30MW<br \/>\nVolta&#8230;&#8230; 20MW<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Total&#8230;.. 390MW<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Note:<br \/>\nGroup A is coming ON<br \/>\nGroup B is going OFF<br \/>\nGroup C is going 24hrs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has asked the Electricity Company of Ghana to shed a total of 390 megawatts of power today [Monday]. &#8220;Gridco has requested for 390MW load relief from ECG between 06:00hrs and 18:00hrs due to insufficient power generation.&#8221; [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Dlw2IkQgHKC6jJoclNozF1dOHzrYVNWk&#8221;]The shedding covers six regions in the country. They are: \u00a0Accra (130MW),\u00a0Ashanti (80MW),\u00a0Tema [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":105856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-162301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}