15-hour power interruption to hit parts of Accra Sunday over repairs – GRIDCo
Residents and businesses across dozens of communities in Accra should brace for a lengthy power cut this Sunday, August 23, as engineers move to fix a transmission tower damaged in a tanker explosion. The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) says the fault occurred on the 161kV Tema-Achimota transmission line at Ashaiman, after a fuel tanker caught […]
Accra residents and businesses face a 15-hour power outage on Sunday, August 23, due to repairs on a damaged transmission tower. The Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) is working to fix a 161kV Tema-Achimota line at Ashaiman following a tanker explosion. The outage, set to occur between 3:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., will affect residential neighborhoods and commercial areas across the capital.
GRIDCo has divided the impacted regions into two zones: Nima, Kanda, Kokomlemle, Sulana, Circle, Madina, Okponglo, Cantonments, Osu Oxford Street, Mallam Atta Market, Ridge, Labone, and Teshie Rasta Road for the first zone; and James Town, Mamprobi, Chorkor, Sempe, Kaneshie, North Industrial Area, Okaishie, Agbogbloshie, Kantamanto, Adabraka, Tesano, Santana Market, Alajo, and Asylum Down for the second zone.
Both GRIDCo and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have apologized for the disruption, emphasizing that technical teams require the full time to ensure safe completion of the tower replacement and the restoration of the line's functionality.
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