The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) incorporated continues to miss key benchmarks in the delivery of service including in both the frequency and duration of blackouts.
During an annual review of eight benchmarks in GPL’s Operating Standards and Performance Targets (OSPT), company executives told the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) that they failed to reach most of their projected achievements in the year 2018.
GPL had committed itself under the System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI) to delivering no more than 70 blackouts during the year to households. Its actual result was 106.4 blackouts a mere 6.3 of which were planned. This would mean that citizens on the average sustained 36 more blackouts over the year. There were however only 12 shutdowns of the Demerara-Berbice Inter-connected System (DBIS) a significant improvement from the 25 shutdowns in 2017.