{"id":20006,"date":"2022-04-11T02:41:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T02:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=20006"},"modified":"2022-04-11T02:41:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T02:41:07","slug":"gridco-announces-daily-outages-in-accra-from-saturday-to-june-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/04\/11\/gridco-announces-daily-outages-in-accra-from-saturday-to-june-30\/","title":{"rendered":"GRIDCo announces daily outages in Accra from Saturday to June 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has served notice customers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) will endure day-time outages from Saturday, April 9 to Thursday, June 30.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is due to a project to re-construct transmission lines from the Achimota substation through Avenor to the Mallam substation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis important exercise is to meet the growing demand for electricity in Accra and its environs,\u201d the Company said in an announcement dated Friday, April 8, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The work is said to involve taking out of service two 16kV transmission lines.<\/p>\n<p>The outage is to enable GRIDCo to upgrade the transmission capacity on each line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outage will affect customers served by the Electricity Company of Ghana\u2019s (ECG) distribution system crossing these transmission lines (between the Achimota Substation at Dzorwulu and Avenor in Accra) during the day, for the stated period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGRIDCo apologises for any inconvenience caused during the period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By Emmanuel Kwame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has served notice customers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) will endure day-time outages from Saturday, April 9 to Thursday, June 30. This is due to a project to re-construct transmission lines from the Achimota substation through Avenor to the Mallam substation. \u201cThis important exercise is to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,43,1],"tags":[4553,13170,11337,1458,198,5800,12310,192,4779,5814,11362,11487,3954,10415],"class_list":["post-20006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local-news","category-news","tag-accra","tag-achimota","tag-demand","tag-distribution","tag-ecg","tag-electricity","tag-exercise","tag-ghana","tag-gridco","tag-june-30","tag-outage","tag-upgrade","tag-will","tag-work"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}