Sunday’s power outage in Accra, Takoradi due to fault
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The Ghana Grid Company Ltd (GRIDCo) has attributed a power supply interruption affecting parts of Accra, Winneba, and Takoradi on Sunday (March 3) to a fault on an equipment at the Mallam substation around 20:38h.
The blackout affected most parts of western side of Accra as well as Winneba and Takoradi.
GRIDCo in a statement signed and issued by Dzifa Bampoh, Manager of the Corporate Communications Section, said engineers swiftly responded to the situation by isolating the faulty equipment for further investigation.
”Restoration of supply to affected customers started immediately. As at 22:30h, power supply to most of the affected customers had been restored. For areas without power supply, engineers are working tirelessly to restore power once the the faulted equipment is fixed,” the statement added.
GRIDCo expressed its sincere apologies to all who were affected by the power supply interuption.
