Despite the Guyana Power and Light Company Inc (GPL) promising to have electricity distribution returned to normal two weeks ago, citizens continue to be faced with random spates of blackouts.
At a press conference on August 25, GPL Public Relations Officer Shevion Sears-Murray had explained that the unplanned power outages were due to a generation shortfall that was expected to be rectified by the following day.
Sears-Murray had explained that while the day peak power demand was 109 MW and the night peak demand ranges from 110 MW to 112 MW, there was a generation shortfall because of downed engines. She had pointed out that at that point in time, the total available generation capacity to the Demerara-Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) was 106 MW, which could not supply the grid with the adequate power for the peak demands and resulted in there being load shedding in random areas to offset the demands.