Over the last few days, the spate of blackouts across the country has brought back memories of daily loadshedding of decades ago and the power company has no detailed explanation for what is occurring or a schedule.
At around 9.30 pm yesterday, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) posted on its Facebook page the following explanation after customers kept complaining.
“At approximately 07:56 hrs this morning, a sudden loss of approximately 46.5 Megawatts (MW) of generation at the Garden of Eden Power Plant caused a cascading effect on the other generating stations, resulting in a disruption of service to customers in Demerara and Berbice.