Atuabo Gas Processing Plant

Ghanaians should brace themselves up for a 12-day load shedding due to the shut down of Atuabo Gas Processing Plant for mandatory maintenance, energynewsafrica.com can confirm.

Sources within the power sector told this portal that the valve of Atuabo Gas Processing plant in the Western Region was closed at 09.25h today Saturday March 30 for a 12-day outage to complete the final tie-in works under the Takoradi-Tema Interconnection Project.

As a result of the termination of gas flow from the west, the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) has requested a total load reduction of 300MW from 08:00hrs to 18:00hrs.