Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) Manage-ment Committee Head Kesh Nandlall said that yesterday morning’s power outage was caused by a “technical issue”.
Many areas in Berbice and Demerara were once again in blackout yesterday when a transmission line tripped at the Kingston facility around 5:49 am.
GPL said in a press statement that its emergency team discovered that a guy-wire had burst and made contact with the L5 Transmission line. At the time, the L5 line was transmitting approximately 15 Megawatts (MWs) of generation, the release noted.
The result was a ripple effect on the grid resulting in several generating units going offline, it added, and disruption in service to customers in Demerara and Berbice.