GRIDCo Blames Saturday’s Power Outage On Gas Supply Challenges

Ghana Grid Company GRIDCo has attributed the power outage experienced by some Ghanaians in parts of the country to disruptions in its power supply system. It said gas supply challenges from the offshore fields is to blame for the blackout yesterday the February 27, 2021. GRIDCo made this known in a statement. Portions of the capital Accra, the Tema and Kumasi in the Ashanti

Region were without electricity the yesterday evening forcing many residents to take to the social media to lament the unannounced cut in power and then also the difficulties brought on, therefore. But GRIDCo in the press release stated that it wishes to inform the general public that at approximately 18:55PM on the Saturday, February 27, 2021 gas supply challenges emanating

from the Offshore fields, led to the loss of power supply totalling about 1,000MW. According to the power transmitter, to prevent a total system shutdown, the power curtailment was carried out which affected major parts of the country. Gas Supply has resumed upstream and power to the affected areas will also be restored shortly, the statement signed by the GRIDCo’s System Operator for National Interconnected Transmission System NITS concluded.