{"id":236811,"date":"2026-06-19T17:24:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-lec-scales-back-imports-from-cote-divoire-and-guinea\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T17:24:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:24:56","slug":"liberia-lec-scales-back-imports-from-cote-divoire-and-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-lec-scales-back-imports-from-cote-divoire-and-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: LEC Scales Back Imports From C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire and Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) has begun reducing electricity imports from C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire and Guinea following the restoration of full generating capacity at the Mount Coffee Hydropower Plant and the addition of a new solar power facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The decision follows the restoration of a damaged turbine at Mount Coffee, enabling the hydropower plant to return to its full 88-megawatt capacity after years of operating below its potential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Speaking in Monrovia on Thursday, Information Minister&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606190272.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) has begun reducing electricity imports from C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire and Guinea following the restoration of full generating capacity at the Mount Coffee Hydropower Plant and the addition of a new solar power facility. The decision follows the restoration of a damaged turbine at Mount Coffee, enabling the hydropower plant to return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,5958,5959,4715,1124,10673,13476,4712,257,16686,254],"class_list":["post-236811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote","tag-divoire","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-imports","tag-lec","tag-liberia","tag-news","tag-scales","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}