At approximately 1 pm yesterday, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said that service was disrupted to customers along the East Coast and East Bank Demerara after a cement truck came into contact with the company’s primary network at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara.
A release from GPL said that the truck caused a feeder trip when it dislodged a guy wire (a tensioned cable designed to add stability to a vertical structure), shifting a conductor on the primary network and causing it to come into contact and rest on the arm of a streetlight.
A team was dispatched to conduct remedial work to restore power to affected customers. The incident saw power going off and on.
GPL says it continues to implore road users to exercise caution near the company’s network as incidents of this nature cause unnecessary service disruption to customers.
