{"id":5355,"date":"2024-05-02T07:46:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T07:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=5355"},"modified":"2024-05-02T07:46:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T07:46:23","slug":"rainstorm-caused-power-outages-on-may-1-ecg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=5355","title":{"rendered":"Rainstorm caused power outages on May 1 \u2013 ECG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has blamed the power outages experienced in parts of Accra on Wednesday, May 1 on the rainstorm.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ECG says the heavy rains flooded some of its primary substations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A statement issued by the company said \u201cElectricity Company of Ghana wishes to inform our cherished customers and the general public that the interruption in service being experienced in parts of Accra is due to the rainstorm that hit the Greater Accra Region on Wednesday, 1st May, 2024, which has flooded the following primary substations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Station H -Dzorwulu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Burma Camp L<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Station D \u2013 Avenor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 High Street AH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 La Trade AJ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Lakeside Estate; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Gbawe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ECG and the Ghana Fire Service are working together to drain all flooded primary substations to ensure a swift restoration of power supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe wish to assure our cherished customers and all stakeholders of our commitment to ensuring a stable power supply, and apologise unreservedly for the effect of the outage on our daily lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has blamed the power outages experienced in parts of Accra on Wednesday, May 1 on the rainstorm. The ECG says the heavy rains flooded some of its primary substations. A statement issued by the company said \u201cElectricity Company of Ghana wishes to inform our cherished customers and the general [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-5355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","tag-ecg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5356,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions\/5356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}