Latest update February 10th, 2025 2:25 PM
Several parts of the city for power outage tomorrow
Several areas of the city are to be without power for nine hours tomorrow as the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Inc. work on a major upgrade at the Sophia 69 kV Sub Station, Sophia, Greater Georgetown.
According to the company, yesterday, customers powered by Sophia Sub Station are asked to prepare for a disruption of service from 08:00 hours to 17:00 hours.
GPL’s sub-station at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara under construction.
“This is to facilitate the connection of existing and new equipment at the upgraded Sophia substation, where work has been proceeding in a live environment; a planned shutdown of the substation will be required. This is unavoidable and a necessary requirement to ensure the safety of the construction workers,” GPL said yesterday.
The areas to be affected will include the East Coast Demerara – between Liliendaal and Bygeval; Bel Air Village, Bel Air Gardens; Bel Air Promenade, Bel Air Springs and Bel Air Park; New Haven; Sophia; Lamaha Springs and Park; Congress Place; Lamaha Gardens; Festival City; North Ruimveldt; South Ruimveldt Park and a section of GuyHoc Park; Vlissengen Road between Lamaha and North Rd; a section of Laluni and Lance Gibbs Streets; Church Street between Vlissengen Road and New Garden Streets; Camp St between Lamaha and New Market Streets; New Market St between Camp and East Streets; part of Thomas Street, North Cummingsburg and Sophia Exhibition Site.
According to GPL, the exercise is part of the modernization of the Sophia Sub-Station under its Infrastructure Development Programme (IDP) aimed at improving the company’s transmission and distribution network across the country.
IDP is a collaborative effort between the Government of Guyana, GPL and China through a concessionary loan of US$38.96M from the China Export-Import Bank (Eximbank).
This amount is supplemented by US$3.9M from counterpart sources for preparatory works, including route clearing, site preparation and backfilling to above 2005 flood levels.
The programme entails the construction of seven new 69/13.8 kV substations, expansion/upgrade of three existing 69/13.8 kV substations, construction of approximately 96 km of 69 kV transmission lines, including a link between the Demerara and Berbice Interconnected Systems, 2.1 km of submarine cable, the construction of a new central control center with SCADA capabilities, and installation of 251 km of fiber optic cable.
Already, two new substations at Edinburgh, W.C.D and Vreed-en-Hoop, W.B.D, one expanded substation at Kingston, Georgetown and 14 km of interconnecting transmission lines with fiber optic cable were constructed and commissioned during November/December 2012 and are in service.
Work is currently proceeding on the construction of the remaining five new substations at New Sophia, Good Hope, New Georgetown, Columbia (Mahaicony) and Golden Grove, E.B.D., two expanded/upgraded stations at Sophia and Onverwagt W.C.B, the central control center and 80 km of interconnecting transmission lines and fibre optic cable. The project is expected to be completed by December 2013.
“Once again, GPL apologizes for any inconvenience that will be caused by this disruption as it continues to strive to provide a consistent supply of electricity to our customers countrywide.”
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