PDS suspends load management until new order

Power Distribution Services (PDS), Ghana Limited, has suspended its load management schedule until further notice.

According to William Boateng, public relations manager of the PDS, the suspension follows a GRIDCo directive that production is sufficient for the areas affected by the load shedding program.

According to Mr. Boateng, this means that the breakdowns scheduled for Saturday, April 6, 2019 and the following days will not be done.

"GRIDCo has asked us to suspend load management with immediate effect until further notice, which means that we are no longer following the load management program, so everything we've published today tomorrow for tomorrow will not be done until further notice … the explanation is that there is a sufficient generation, "he explained in an interview with Citi FM, based in Accra.

The PDS released Friday a load shed schedule following a meeting with the Volta River Authority (VRA) and the Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC).

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Eight regions were affected by the first official shedding, which lasted 12 hours on Friday.

The second outage lasted fourteen hours between Saturday and Thursday from 16:00 to 18:00.

According to the PDS, scheduled outages are due to the closure of the Atuabo gas treatment plant.

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