The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) yesterday said that power outages in parts of the East Coast and in Georgetown on Monday were caused by the inadvertent tripping of a circuit breaker.
In a statement, GPL said that the Demerara Interconnected System (DIS) that supplies sections of the East Coast and Georgetown was adversely affected as a result of an “intermittent problem,” causing the inadvertent tripping of the circuit breaker linking two 5.5 MW generators at the Garden of Eden Wartsila plant to the system.
GPL added that the sudden loss of 11 MW to the DIS would have resulted in a decline in the supply frequency and activation by under-frequency relay of feeders supplying consumers from Success to Mon Repos; Lusignan to Coldingen; Sachibazaar St Prashad Nagar and environs; Campbellville, south of Cummings Canal and east of Sheriff Street; Lamaha Gardens; Section ‘K’ Campbellville, Lodge Housing Scheme; D’urban Backlands; Century Palms; Lodge; Meadow Brook Housing Scheme; Meadow Brook Gardens; parts of Wortmanville, Newburg and Stabroek; Tucville; East and North East La Penitence; parts of Albouystown; West La Penitence and from Versailles to Roden Rust.
“The frequent interruptions were a result of the intermittent nature of the fault in the breaker control circuit. Action has been taken to prevent the … tripping while the problem is identified and corrected,” GPL further said, while expressing an apology to customers.
Sections of Georgetown experienced a similar problem on Sunday, when there was an outage that lasted almost the entire day.
