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Dec 12, 2013 News
– Company working to fix the problem
While businesses and Government entities continue to experience prolonged power outages throughout the Essequibo Coast, Engineers from the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) are working assiduously to restore the regular supply of electricity.
In a statement to the press, the Power Company expressed regret for the outage along the Essequibo Coast.
“GPL wishes to apologize to its customers along the Essequibo Coast who have been experiencing unreliable electricity supply since Monday, December 9.”
“At present, Engineers from the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) are working assiduously at the Company’s Anna Regina Power Plant to rectify electrical problems that developed within the high voltage switchgear.
With only two megawatts of generating capacity available for distribution, consumers would have experienced prolonged periods without electricity as GPL resorted to load-shedding.”
According to reports, the entire Region Two had plunged into darkness on Tuesday, due to a technical problem developed at the power plant, aback of Anna Regina.
“Residents from the area said that workers from the GPL office at Anna Regina had explained that explosion had caused a small fire which resulted in a complete shutdown of the system. Dem say the equipment dem old and gon tek a time fuh fix.”
The shutdown resulted in great inconvenience to workers, shop owners and taxi drivers and housewives.
An officer at Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) office at Anna Regina said that the company is trying to ascertain the cause of the shutdown.
Even the hospital mortuary was affected as families of the deceased have been forced to provide at least two huge bags of ice each day for bodies to be adequately stored until the date for burial.
The GPL release stated that the switchgear should have been completed by yesterday facilitating the distribution of the Plant’s 5.4 MW installed capacity to the system which has a maximum demand of 4.2 MW.
Meanwhile other emerging reports have indicated that a main circuit at the Station had been damaged, resulting in the long periods of blackouts.
GPL Technical personnel are said to have been summoned from Georgetown to assist in rectifying the problem on the Essequibo Coast.
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