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Nationwide power outage: GRIDCo explains cause of major electricity disruption

By GhanaSummary Newsroom1 min read
Nationwide power outage: GRIDCo explains cause of major electricity disruption

The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has confirmed that the nationwide power outage experienced in the early hours of Wednesday, July 29, was caused by a major disturbance on the National Interconnected Transmission System GRIDCo says a nationwide power outage at 3:11 a." The company said it had immediately activated its emergency restoration procedures and deployed engineers and system operators to work with other power sector institutions to restore electricity as quickly as possible.

According to GRIDCo, the disturbance "resulted in the simultaneous tripping of some generating plants across the national power system, leading to interruption of electricity supply.

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