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On Sunday, the Guyana Power and Light Inc. effectively completed maintenance on the 69 kv transmission line and structures carrying 11 kV and 13.8 kV lines along the corridor linking the Kingston Power Stations to the Sophia Substation. The maintenance programme ended at 20:00hrs.During the execution of remedial works,Clark Griswold Jersey, transfer of power from Kingston to Sophia and other substations along the East Coast and East Bank was not possible. Customers along the East Bank Demerara,Colton Parayko Team North America Jersey, East Coast Demerara and Georgetown experienced intermittent outages from 08:00 hrs to 20:00hrs,Denis Savard Jersey, partly due to switching to and from alternative sources of power supply,Michal Rozsival Jersey, and capacity shortfall resulting from problems encountered with the boiler at Skeldon which had initially been supporting the grid with over 12 MW.In an isolated case,Connor Hellebuyck Team North America Jersey, power was not restored to customers of Delhi Street,Jonathan Drouin Team North America Jersey, Prashad Nagar on completion of the exercise, due to an unrecognized local fault not directly linked to Sundays’ maintenance exercise. This has since been rectified.Additionally,Brandon Saad Team North America Jersey, there was an interruption in the supply of electricity in Kitty,Bobby Hull Jersey, Kingston,Marcus Kruger Jersey, Cummingsburg and Sophia around 10:00 hrs yesterday as a result of machinery operations within the vicinity of the railway embankment. |
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