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Tripped transmission line shut off power to Demerara system – GPL

Jan 09, 2013 News

The entire Demerara was left without power for several hours Monday night after a transmission line tripped, the state-owned power company said yesterday.
Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL), in a brief statement, said that the outage lasted two hours after the Demerara Interconnected System (DIS) tripped at 23:44 hrs.
GPL said this was because of problems experienced with the 69KV transmission lines linking Garden of Eden and Sophia.
“As a result, Georgetown, East and West Coast Demerara, and East and West Bank Demerara communities were without electricity for about thirty to fifty-five minutes.”
The truth is that some households in those areas were without power for as long as four hours.
The power company said that emergency remedial measures allowed its emergency personnel to “quickly and effectively” respond to the situation which resulted in the first feeder being repowered at 00:13 hrs and the last at 01:40 hrs on Tuesday.
However, Kaieteur News received numerous calls yesterday complaining about the severe inconvenience.
Residents of especially those on West Bank Demerara have spoken of sporadic blackouts during the past holidays, even on New Year’s Day.
“I wonder if GPL feels that it can do what it feels like and not explain to the people of Guyana why we are having these outages? Nada. Nothing. We are literally left in the dark. I believe that is eye-pass they eye-pass the people,” said one businessman of La Grange, West Bank Demerara.
GPL has a massive programme now to run new transmission lines across the coast with several new substations. It has run a new submarine cable across the Demerara River from Kingston, to help with the supply on West Demerara area. The old cable from Garden of Eden has outlived its usefulness and is too small to take the increasing load demanded there.

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