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Mar 19, 2013 News
According to the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL), its network conversion from 50Hz to 60Hz is moving apace. Bel Air Park is completed and preparatory work is being done in sections of Kingston.
“On completion of Kingston, attention will turn to Cummings Street. Consumers, as always, will be advised of the progress of the frequency conversion, as it affects their supply. GPL expects that the Georgetown supply frequency will be standardized at 60Hz by the end of July.”
The conversion is part of the bigger project to improve the transmission and distribution operations of GPL, which have been an area tapped as the cause of significant losses for the state-owned company.
On Sunday, in Demerara, there were a number of outages in Georgetown, East Coast, West Coast and parts of the West Bank and East Bank during the afternoon and evening hours.
GPL said that these were as a result of the ongoing works with its Sophia 69Kv substation and on various feeders. This particular project is to allow construction under the Infrastructure Development Project to proceed.
“GPL was able to substantially complete all these modifications but as the Demerara System was being reintegrated, a series of problems were encountered. These problems included frequency converter, transmission line and feeder issues which caused multiple outages. Finally power was restored to all areas by 20:25hrs (Sunday).”
Last Tuesday, GPL shut down a number of areas to modify feeders serving the East Coast to provide a safe corridor for a new transmission line to be constructed between Sophia and Good Hope, East Coast Demerara.
On Sunday, work was done to construct temporary facilities at GPL’s 38-year old Sophia 69Kv substation to allow for expansion work.
It also facilitated stringing of conductors on various sections of a new transmission line between Sophia and South Georgetown. “These particular sections require the new transmission line to cross existing 13.8Kv feeders serving South Georgetown and parts of the East Bank.”
GPL, in apologizing for the outages, assured that they would be the worst.
“The planned outages (Sunday) were the most widespread envisaged under the Infrastructure Development Project. Construction work is now expected to progress rapidly at our old and new Sophia substations and on new transmission lines to the East Coast and within Georgetown. GPL again wishes to thank its valued customers for their patience and understanding.”
The power company said that its frequency conversion of the Kingston 22MW Wartsila Power Plant is progressing according to plan.
“The second 5.5MW generator was released last evening for necessary works, on completion of conversion of the first generator. The entire 22MW plant is expected to be operating at 60Hz by the end of July.
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