With demand expected to increase during the upcoming holiday season, the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) yesterday sought to assure its customers that blackouts will only occur if there are emergency shutdowns as the company has the required generating capacity.
“In terms of outages, we don’t see exposure on the generation side. Of course with the network we always have an issue… and what we find happening around this time is we have people who are driving and they seem to be targeting the poles. So, we have a lot of those [accidents] and there is only so much we can do,” Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GPL Bharrat Dindyal yesterday said at a press conference held at the company’s Kingston Head Office.
