{"id":316517,"date":"2017-05-04T15:40:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T15:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=316517"},"modified":"2017-05-04T15:40:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T15:40:23","slug":"power-restored-to-all-bulk-supply-points-gridco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=316517","title":{"rendered":"Power restored to all bulk supply points – GRIDCo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has announced the restoration of power to all its bulk supply points after the surge in the power network that resulted in a nationwide blackout on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

A statement from GRIDCo noted that \u201ctechnical teams from the generation, transmission and distribution worked throughout the night to facilitate the restoration of power after the outage which occurred at 9: 40 pm yesterday May 3, 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n

“There are ongoing works to restore power to isolated areas in the distribution network, especially consumers served from the Mallam Substation,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n

GRIDCo has also commenced investigations into the cause of the general outage and “will inform the public of its preliminary.\u201d<\/p>\n

As at around 7: 00 am on Thursday morning, about 50 percent of the power had already been restored, according to the Chief Executive Officer of GRIDCo, William Amuna who spoke on the Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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William Amuna, CEO of GRIDCo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Explaining the blackout, \u00a0Mr.\u00a0Amuna said “there was a surge of power around\u00a09:40 pm\u00a0last night, we lost many generators across the country. As a consequence, we lost supply to most parts of the country.”<\/p>\n

“…We started the restoration programme till about 1 am when we were above 1,000 megawatts but there was a swing in the power system again and we lost some generation but we are in the process of restoring power” he added.<\/p>\n

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has announced the restoration of power to all its bulk supply points after the surge in the power network that resulted in a nationwide blackout on Wednesday evening. A statement from GRIDCo noted that \u201ctechnical teams from the generation, transmission and distribution worked throughout the night to facilitate the restoration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[11],"tags":[6803,3,3371],"class_list":["post-316517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-blackout","tag-ghana-news","tag-gridco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316517","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=316517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}