{"id":752728,"date":"2019-11-27T02:02:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T02:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/27\/tuesday-blackout-due-to-excess-supply-gridco\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T02:02:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T02:02:40","slug":"tuesday-blackout-due-to-excess-supply-gridco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/27\/tuesday-blackout-due-to-excess-supply-gridco\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday blackout due to excess supply &#8211; GRIDCo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"428\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1572367444_497_Dumsor-Copy-696x428.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Dumsor (Copy)\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo: Power cut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Chief Executive of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), Jonathan Amoako  Baah, says the blackout experienced in most parts of the country on Tuesday was due to excess supply of power.<\/p>\n<p>According  to him,\u00a0their thermal plants failed to operate after power being  supplied to C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire was reversed to\u00a0Ghana\u2019s system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: Western Togoland brouhaha is recipe for tribal war \u2013 Antwi-Danso warns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The power outage affected the Central, Western, Ashanti and Greater Accra regions as well as the Northern parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt exactly 2:37 pm there was a major system disturbance following power  from C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire which led to the disruption of all power plants in Ghana,\u201d Mr Amoako Baah told Israel Laryea on JoyNews Prime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: Listen: Auditor-General suffering Charlotte Osei\u2019s fate \u2013 Allotey Jacobs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis happened when we were exporting about 100 Megawatts from the Ghana  system to the C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire system. All of a sudden C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire lost  their lines to Mali which means that there was over-generation in C\u00f4te  d\u2019Ivoire and they started exporting power to us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe  power plants in Ghana are sensitive to power fluctuations [and] this led to the shutdown of the thermal plants in Ghana which caused the outage,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: Listen: IGP breaks silence on ACP  Agordzo\u2019s coup case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According  to him, the problem, which caused\u00a0major parts of the country to be in darkness for several hours, could not have been anticipated for any rectification.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Myjoyonline.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo: Power cut The Chief Executive of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), Jonathan Amoako Baah, says the blackout experienced in most parts of the country on Tuesday was due to excess supply of power. According to him,\u00a0their thermal plants failed to operate after power being supplied to C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire was reversed to\u00a0Ghana\u2019s system. READ: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":717763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tuesday blackout due to excess supply - GRIDCo - 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\/2019\/11\/27\/tuesday-blackout-due-to-excess-supply-gridco\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tuesday blackout due to excess supply - GRIDCo - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"File photo: Power cut The Chief Executive of the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), Jonathan Amoako Baah, says the blackout experienced in most parts of the country on Tuesday was due to excess supply of power. 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