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Expect blackouts, GPL warns

Mar 09, 2013 News

 

– as infrastructural works on substations, transmission lines continue

Activities under GPL’s Infrastructure Development Project are progressing, with various substations and transmission lines under construction in Georgetown, East Coast and East Bank Demerara, the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) said yesterday.
In Georgetown, work is progressing on a new Control Center and a new substation at Sophia, new substation in North Ruimveldt and a transmission line from Sophia to the North Ruimveldt substation.
On the East Coast, installation of the new Good Hope substation is progressing while pole planting activities will commence shortly on the new transmission line between Sophia and Good Hope.
At Golden Grove on the East Bank, foundation works have just started for the new substation.
Construction of the new transmission lines from Sophia to North Ruimveldt and Good Hope requires modifications to existing distribution circuits traversing the routes to create a safe corridor.
“This means that the power supply to consumers between Sophia and Bygeval (Mahaica) and the areas bordered by Sophia, Hadfield Street, Alexander Village, North and South Ruimveldt and Republic Park would be affected during various phases of the new transmission stringing.”
GPL said it would advertise the outages to inform consumers of the date, time and duration.
“Next Tuesday, March 12, a number of modifications will be done to the three circuits supplying consumers between Sophia and Bygeval. The outage is expected from 08:30Hrs to 14:30Hrs but as various phases of the modification are completed, power would be restored. All consumers should be repowered by 14:30Hrs..”

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