The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) yesterday suffered a trip on one of its transmission lines triggering outages in Demerara and Berbice.
The power company has been plagued by trips which have disrupted power to large sections of the grid and raised questions about GPL’s preparedness to efficiently transmit the planned gas to energy load.
In a statement, GPL said that at approximately 8.29 am yesterday, the L5 Trans-mission Line, which links the Company’s Sophia to Kingston Substations, tripped.
At the time of the trip, the L5 Trans-mission Line was transferring approximately 12 MWs of power.
“The sudden loss of generation created a cascading effect, which caused the units
at our generating facilities to go offline, disrupting service to customers in Deme-rara and Berbice”, GPL said.
Restoration efforts began immediately, and at approximately 8.31 am the first area in Demerara was repowered. Incre-mental restoration continued until all areas in Demerara and Berbice were repowered at approximately 12:19 pm.
An investigation is ongoing to determine the root cause of the shutdown, GPL said.
It added that the company is cognizant of the inconveniences associated with unplanned service interruptions and “continues to work towards minimizing these occurrences”.
