The Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) said yesterday that activities under its Infrastructure Development Project are progressing with various substations and transmission lines under construction in Georgetown, East Coast and East Bank of Demerara.

The power company said in a press release that in Georgetown, work is progressing on the new Control Centre and a new substation at Sophia, a new substation in North Ruimveldt and a transmission line from Sophia to the North Ruimveldt substation.
On the East Coast, the release continued, installation of the new Good Hope substation is progressing while pole planting activities will commence shortly on the new transmission line between Sophia and Good Hope. And at Golden Grove on the East Bank, foundation works has just started for the new substation.
Construction of the new transmission lines from Sophia to North Ruimveldt and Good Hope requires modifications to existing distribution circuits traversing the routes to create a safe corridor, the release added.

Outages
According to GPL, this means that the power supply to consumers between Sophia and Bygeval (Mahaica) and the areas bordered by Sophia, Hadfield Street, Alexander Village, North and South Ruimveldt and Republic Park would be affected during various phases of the new transmission stringing.
Meanwhile, next Tuesday, March 12, a number or modifications will be done to the three circuits supplying consumers between Sophia and Bygeval.   GPL said, however, that as usual it would advertise these outages to inform consumers of the date, time and duration.
The outage is expected from 08:30hrs to 14:30hrs but as various phases of the modification are completed, power would be restored. All consumers should be repowered by 14:30hrs, GPL advised. In the meantime, the power company said it is soliciting the cooperation of its customers as it strives to improve its infrastructure to provide a better quality of service.