Transmission line trip caused outage – GPL

The Guyana Power and Light Inc yesterday said that a transmission line trip was the cause for the system wide shutdown of its Demerara-Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS)

“At approximately 11:31 hrs, the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) experienced a trip on the L3 Transmission Line which connects the Golden Grove and Garden of Eden Substations.  Consequently, service to customers in Demerara and Berbice was disrupted,” GPL said in a statement.