‘Fault’ caused Monday afternoon power outages - GRIDCo
The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) says power outages in parts of the country Monday afternoon, were caused by a fault on its Aboadze-Anwomaso transmission line.
GRIDCo in a press statement said following the fault experienced in the power system which led to the loss of supply to some parts of the country, its technical team "immediately initiated restoration efforts and was able to fix the transmission network within 30-minutes."
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“GRIDCo is working with relevant players in the generation and distribution chain to resume power transmission to all affected areas”, the company assured, adding that more than 80% of the affected substations had been fully restored as at the time it issued the statement late Monday afternoon.
GRIDCo said efforts were ongoing to restore the remaining 20%, and expressed deep regrets for any inconvenience caused.
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Background
The country has been experiencing intermittent power outages lately. While some lead to localised outages, a couple of them have plunged almost the entire country into darkness.
At 11:06 p.m. on Saturday April 3, this year, a conductor on the Tema-Accra East transmission line fell at Trasacco, leading to power outages in major parts of the Greater Accra Region.
On Sunday, March 7, this year, a challenge with the power system led to a total system shutdown at about 2:10 p.m. This led to interruption in power supply to all parts of the country.
The GRIDCo explained the following day that the challenge was due to a technical fault on one of the major transmission lines between Prestea and Obuasi.
“The situation led to overloads on other adjacent transmission lines, leading to a sequence of trips and an eventual power system shutdown in the country,” the statement said.
The power transmitter said restoration of power started immediately and supply was restored to all Bulk Supply Points (BSP) at 6:30 p.m. the same day.
The GRIDCo and recently the Minister of Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, had given assurances that there was adequate generating capacity to meet demand in the country.
