{"id":384336,"date":"2011-04-21T17:45:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T17:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/21\/gridco-explains-accra-blackout\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T17:45:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T17:45:26","slug":"gridco-explains-accra-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/21\/gridco-explains-accra-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"GRIDCo Explains Accra Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) says the loss of electricity supply to parts of Accra and its environs on Wednesday night was as a result of \u201ca blast on critical equipment\u201d at the Achimota sub-station.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by Mr Albert Quainoo, Head of Public<br \/>Relations, said the blast took out of service one of the transformers<br \/>at the sub-station resulting in the loss of supply to the Electricity<br \/>Company of Ghana (ECG).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA GRIDCo technical team is working to replace the equipment at<br \/>the station in order to restore service by the end of the day,\u201d the<br \/>statement said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/d65bget.media_14-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go here to read the rest: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) says the loss of electricity supply to parts of Accra and its environs on Wednesday night was as a result of \u201ca blast on critical equipment\u201d at the Achimota sub-station. A statement signed by Mr Albert Quainoo, Head of Public Relations, said the blast took out of service one of the transformers at the sub-station resulting in the loss of supply to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG). \u201cA GRIDCo technical team is working to replace the equipment at the station in order to restore service by the end of the day,\u201d the statement said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GRIDCo Explains Accra Blackout - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/21\/gridco-explains-accra-blackout\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"GRIDCo Explains Accra Blackout - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) says the loss of electricity supply to parts of Accra and its environs on Wednesday night was as a result of \u201ca blast on critical equipment\u201d at the Achimota sub-station. 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