Ghana: Loss Of 1000MW Of Power Causes Cuts In Electricity Supply To Many Home Nationwide

Many parts of the Republic of Ghana are without electricity supply as a result of system collapse at the power transmission company, Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo).

Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) Ing. Jonathan Amoako-Baah  told energynewsafrica.com that about 1,000 megawatts of power have, so far, been lost.

In a statement,  GRIDCo announced that at 2:37pm today(Tuesday), there was a major system disturbance following power swings from the Cote d’Ivoire interconnection with Ghana, thereby, leading to outages in parts of the country.

“Power supply has been restored to most parts of the country and efforts are currently underway to restore the remaining affected areas,” the statement said.

GRIDCo apologised to all the affected communities for any inconvenience caused, adding that it remains committed to its mandate of delivering reliable power supply.

The development has prompted many social media users to question whether the West African nation has returned to the days of power outages which was christened as ‘dumsor’.

Meanwhile, a statement issued by the Electricity Company of Ghana, power distribution and retail company, attributed the current outage to a technical challenge upstream.

“Customers should please note that the situation is beyond ECG’s control, however, immediately the challenge is resolved, power supply will be restored to all affected areas,” the statement assured.

“The inconvenience is very much regretted,” the statement concluded.

05:00MT UPDATE, Tuesday November 26, 2019.

GPP

Inlet: 138.6barg @ 27.10°C
Outlet: [email protected]°C
Flowrate: 88.8MMscf/d

AIS

Inlet: [email protected]°C
Outlet: [email protected]°C
Flowrate: 81.53MMscf/d

ORF@04:00GMT
Outlet:[email protected]°C
Flowrate: 181.73MMscf/d

WAPCo
Outlet: [email protected]°C
Flowrate: 58.25MMscf/d

TRMS
Inlet: [email protected]°C
Outlet: [email protected]°C
Flowrate: 106.85MMscf/d

DVS
Inlet: [email protected]°C
Outlet: [email protected]°C
Flowrate:8.73MMscf/d

TRMS EXT

Inlet: [email protected]°C
Outlet: [email protected]°C
Flowrate:3.42MMscfd

POWER GENERATION

T-1

Unit [email protected]/d
Unit 2=Down
Steam=53MW

T-2

Unit 1= 115MW@ 26.58MMscfd
Unit 2=Down
Steam= 58MW

AMERI

Eight (8) units with total load of 200.3MW@ 42.94MMscf/d

KARPOWER

Sixteen(16) units with total load of [email protected]/d

Total Gas exiting TRMS 218.75MMscf/d.

05:00GMT WAGPCo Parameters

ITOKI

Inlet: 27.10barg
Outlet: 26.80barg
Flowrate: 77.80MMscf/d

LBCS
Inlet: –
Outlet: 46.0barg
Flowrate: –

TEMA

Inlet: 33.3barg
Outlet: 28.5barg
Flowrate: 90.69MMscf/d