{"id":215081,"date":"2016-05-18T08:35:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T08:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=215081"},"modified":"2016-05-18T08:35:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T08:35:16","slug":"gridco-to-shed-300-mw-of-power-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=215081","title":{"rendered":"GRIDCo to shed 300 MW of power today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) is expected to shed about 300 Megawatts (MW) of power today [Wednesday].<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;9WxR5pxz9dbHtkrEaQQHfY1WSF1DgweK&#8221;]Sources at GRIDCo say Accra is expected to shed 120 MW,\u00a0Tema 60 MW,\u00a0Eastern 30MW,\u00a0Western 50MW,\u00a0Central 20M,\u00a0Volta 20MW.<\/p>\n<p>The megawatts of power expected to be shed in the Ashanti Region remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>In Accra, more than 20 areas will have their lights go off from 4pm but it is not clear yet when power will return.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Load Management in Achimota<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GRIDCo further explained that &#8220;following the putting off of Mallam bsp by Gridco this morning at 08:16hrs and the customers being off up till this time, ST2 instructed control to drop some load at the Achimota bsp and the 3rd bsp (Bulk Supply Point) to the tune of 120MW so that Mallam load could be restored.<\/p>\n<p>By virtue of the development, the following feeders have been put off;<\/p>\n<p>FEEDER OFF TIME<br \/>\n&#8211; AB05 16:42 hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; AB08. 16:42 hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; AB02. 16:42hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; L02. 16:48hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; K13. 16:41hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; K09. 16:42hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; L03. 16:52hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; Madina. 16:41hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; Airport 1. 16:48hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; Teshie 1. 16:43hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; Teshie 3. 16:43hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; Teshie 4. 16:43hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; Akai Clinic. 17:25hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; Commercial Inv. 17:02hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; Old Spintex. 16:43hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; Ogbojo. 16:41hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; H10. 16:54hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; Japan Motors. 17:02hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; Agbogba 17:22hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; Dodowa. 17:22hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; Coffee Shop. 17:25hrs<br \/>\n&#8211; Kwabenya V. 18:00hrs<\/p>\n<p>Ghana for the past years has been experiencing erratic power supply which has led to the collapse of businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Government in a bid to alleviate the effects of the crisis,\u00a0imported two power ships to augment the country\u2019s current power supply.<\/p>\n<p>It also imported some plants from Ameri Power in that regard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) is expected to shed about 300 Megawatts (MW) of power today [Wednesday]. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;9WxR5pxz9dbHtkrEaQQHfY1WSF1DgweK&#8221;]Sources at GRIDCo say Accra is expected to shed 120 MW,\u00a0Tema 60 MW,\u00a0Eastern 30MW,\u00a0Western 50MW,\u00a0Central 20M,\u00a0Volta 20MW. The megawatts of power expected to be shed in the Ashanti Region remains unclear. In Accra, more than 20 areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":215082,"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":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215081","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}