At approximately 6.18 pm yesterday, the submarine cable which links the Vreed-en-Hoop and Kingston Power plants tripped on a fault causing a total shutdown of the Demerara-Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS), the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said yesterday.
GPL said that power restoration efforts began immediately with the first area being repowered at approximately 6.30 pm. Incremental restoration continued, and all circuits were repowered at approximately 8.53 pm.
GPL said that its technical team is working to ascertain the root cause of the outage. Thereafter, a comprehensive press release will be issued, it said.
Minister within the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar in a Facebook post last night said there was a total shutdown of the generators operated at GPL and Technical Personnel were troubleshooting the problem.
Within the second hour of the power outage, Indar in an updated post said “power was restored to Garden of Eden and Kingston.”
Minister Juan Edghill, while speaking with Stabroek News noted that while the government will be investing in alternative power producing generation, they are committed to fixing the issues at GPL to all-together eliminate power outages.
Many persons on Facebook vented their dissatisfaction at the power outages which they noted have become frequent in the past week.
