{"id":18866,"date":"2014-05-15T18:44:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T18:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=18866"},"modified":"2014-05-15T19:44:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T19:44:52","slug":"gridco-restores-power-to-accra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=18866","title":{"rendered":"GRIDCo restores power to Accra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has restored power to all the areas affected by the explosion at the Achimota Sub-station.<\/p>\n<p>Most areas in Accra were on Wednesday plunged into darkness when an explosion occurred at the Achimota Sub-Station.<\/p>\n<p>Power was restored to some areas by Thursday morning but others were still in darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Public Affairs at GRIDCo, Robert Quainoo, told <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong>, his outfit worked tirelessly to ensure power was restored around 3pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now in the position to carry all the power being generated by the generators from our main switch yard in Tema to consumers in Tema,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, power has been restored to all parts of Accra with the exception of areas scheduled for load shedding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe load shedding starts at 6pm so if at 6pm you don\u2019t have electricity, it is from the load shedding programme,\u201d Mr. Quainoo explained.<\/p>\n<p>He clarified that the explosion on Wednesday \u201cdoes not change the situation [energy crisis]. We still have a power deficit that has to be met through load shedding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has restored power to all the areas affected by the explosion at the Achimota Sub-station. Most areas in Accra were on Wednesday plunged into darkness when an explosion occurred at the Achimota Sub-Station. Power was restored to some areas by Thursday morning but others were still in darkness. Head of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18867,"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":[43,38],"class_list":["post-18866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18866","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}