According to the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), operators of the National Interconnected Transmission System, there is a shortfall in thermal power generation due to a lack of gas supplies from the Atuabo Gas Processing Plant (GPP) and the West African Gas Pipeline (WAPCo).
According to a statement released by GRIDCo on Friday, July 7, “this has created a supply gap of 650 Megawatts of power at peak time, which will affect consumers in some parts of the country.”
While the business apologised for the disruption this may give customers, it stated that “every effort is being made to restore gas supply from Atuabo.”
“As the situation improves, power will be restored to affected customers,” according to the statement.
The power distributor, the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), also apologised to customers who had power outages as a result of the situation in a release published on Friday, July 7.
It went on to say that due to the gas situation at Atuabo and WAPCo, all Asogli phase-One units, Cenpower, and Aksa Power Plants had shut down, resulting in a generating shortage.
According to the report, the Ghana National Gas Company has stated that the problem would be resolved as soon as feasible.
“Meanwhile, ECG anticipates that power will be fully restored by 9:00 p.m. today, Friday, July 7, 2023,” the statement continued.
