{"id":45183,"date":"2014-09-05T17:32:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T17:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=45183"},"modified":"2014-09-05T17:33:32","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T17:33:32","slug":"damaged-nigerian-gas-pipeline-pushes-ghana-into-load-shedding-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=45183","title":{"rendered":"Damaged Nigerian gas pipeline pushes Ghana into load shedding mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has confirmed to <em><b>Citi B<\/b><\/em><em><b>usiness <\/b><\/em><em><b>N<\/b><\/em><em><b>ews<\/b><\/em> that the current nationwide load shedding exercise is due to the damage to a major gas pipeline from Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>This coupled with maintenance works on the country\u2019s power plants , low levels of water in the Akosombo and Bui dams have compounded the power generation challenge in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) earlier said it had intensified its load shedding exercise in the southern part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Public Relations Officer of the ECG William Boateng, some 200 megawatts of power was shed on August 28, the highest in awhile following power generation challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Citi Business News the Communications Consultant to the Energy Ministry, Edward Bawa said the load shedding situation started some two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;we have a curtailment of gas supplies from Nigeria because the pipeline has been destroyed at one point &#8220;, he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Hydro power constitutes about 50 % of Ghana&#8217;s power generation mix and the water levels in Akosombo and Bui are very low .&#8221; the managers of these two reservoirs will have to ensure that they mange the water levels over a period of time in order to sustain the supply of power&#8221;, Edward Bawa stated.<\/p>\n<p>By:\u00a0 Rabiu Alhassan\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has confirmed to Citi Business News that the current nationwide load shedding exercise is due to the damage to a major gas pipeline from Nigeria. This coupled with maintenance works on the country\u2019s power plants , low levels of water in the Akosombo and Bui dams have compounded the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":45184,"comment_status":"closed","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":[1345],"tags":[1344,1194,22,21,4],"class_list":["post-45183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing","tag-bastie-samir","tag-kwabena-agyapong","tag-medcirclesgh","tag-psychiatric","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45183","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=45183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}