{"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\/2017\/05\/power-restored-to-all-bulk-supply-points-gridco\/","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