{"id":3515,"date":"2020-08-14T16:05:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T16:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/?p=3515"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:06:39","slug":"total-blackout-on-the-uganda-power-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/total-blackout-on-the-uganda-power-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Blackout on the Uganda Power System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, 13th August 2020, the Country experienced a Total Blackout at approximately 11:16 hours. According to Eskom Uganda Limited, the Operator of the Nalubaale-Kiira Generation Complex, the incident occurred during switching operations at the Owen Falls Sub-Station that evacuates the Nalubaale-Kiira Generation Complex, to create a safe working area for painting works.<\/p>\n<p>The incident involved a Bus Bar Isolator which failed during a switching exercise. The equipment involved in the incident was isolated for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Total Power Restoration was achieved by 13:00:03 hours on 13th August 2020. We regret the inconvenience this incident caused and remain committed to providing Quality and Reliable Electricity Supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, 13th August 2020, the Country experienced a Total Blackout at approximately 11:16 hours. According to Eskom Uganda Limited, the Operator of the Nalubaale-Kiira Generation Complex, the incident occurred during switching operations at the Owen Falls Sub-Station that evacuates the Nalubaale-Kiira Generation Complex, to create a safe working area for painting works. The incident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3516,"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostalitecloud.com\/era\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}