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Nov 21, 2012 News
– power company calls for patience
Residents of Lethem and its surrounding areas yesterday vented their anger and frustration in no uncertain manner over the sporadic electricity supply they have been receiving for the past three weeks.
Dozens of placard-carrying residents converged outside the Lethem Power Company Inc. (LMPCI) compound, chanting slogans calling for the replacement of the entity’s current management.
The residents are angry that since the power company began experiencing severe problems following the collapse of its main generator, there has been no proper communication with the residents, either directly or through the media.
Some of the placards read “Give us a new generator for a Christmas Gift”; “Stop patching up the old generator, it’s time for a new one now,”; “Visionless + Poor Management= 5 hours” and “LPC means Lacking Peoples Consultation”.
Residents claimed that the poor electricity supply in the district has adversely affected their livelihood, since they have suffered significant losses in terms of perishable items, as well as inadequate potable water, because there is very little electricity to power the water pumps.
They are convinced that the Lethem power company has showed total disregard for them in the matter.
But in a press release issued late yesterday, the company in an apparent effort to save face assured that it has put in place plans to restore an acceptable level of generation by mid-December 2012, and to provide a reasonable safety margin by the end of May 2013 in the long term.
According to the power company, a contract was recently awarded, after selective tendering, under which an engine for a 750 kVa FG Wilson genset would be sourced in Florida, U.S.A., and flown to Guyana.
It added that the exciter for the FG Wilson 625 kVa unit, which failed two Mondays ago, has been repaired in Georgetown, and was to be flown back to Lethem yesterday. This unit is expected to be back in service by Friday.
According to the Lethem power company, with further help from the Government, through PU/NICIL, tenders have been invited for the provision of an additional two, each being about 750 kVa, gensets. These are expected to be available in Lethem, early in the second quarter of 2013.
“LMPCI extends regrets to the people of Lethem, and begs their patience until the FG Wilson 625 kVa and 750kVa units have been restored. Until then, LMPCI has had to resort to the Caterpillar 350 kVa set from the earlier “lights at night” mandate.”
LMPCI is assuring residents of Lethem that the present period of difficulties did not result from a lack of attention but, rather, from a series of unexpected, untimely failure of gensets and from preoccupation with obtaining of fuel and maintaining operations during the period of the Linden unrest.
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