Ghana’s power transmission company, GRIDCo, has restored power supply to all areas earlier affected by the outage on its transmission lines.
“GRIDCo’s National Interconnected Transmission System has also been fully restored and is stable,” the company said in a statement to update Ghanaians.
Parts of the West African nation experienced power outage when a raging bush fire under the high voltage lines of GRIDCo, near Tarkwa in the West Region, caused its 330kV Aboadze-Anwomaso line to trip, thereby, resulting in several lines in the western corridor of the grid triggering a system disturbance, causing all thermal plants and the Bui generators and customer loads to trip.
The company said a fire tender from Tarkwa Goldfields was immediately mobilised to the site to bring the fire under control.
It said restoration of the grid commenced immediately.
In a statement issued by the corporate communication section, it said the power supply was restored at about 17:57 GMT
“GRIDCo extends its appreciation to the Ghanaian public for its patience as efforts were made to restore the NITS and power to Ghanaians,” the statement noted.
GRIDCo went on to apologise to its customers for the inconvenience caused by the incident.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
