IN the wake of regular occurrences of power outages that have been hitting the general public across the country, the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) yesterday said the outages had resulted from technical difficulties and were compounded by freak accidents and repairs to transmission lines.

In a press release, the power company said that on November 29, 2014 at approximately 17:44 hrs the 69 Kv and 11 Kv transmission lines stretching along the Eastern Highway-within the vicinity of GPL’s Sophia Location-came into contact with each other, resulting in a system disturbance in Berbice and sections of Demerara.
GPL added that given the time of the incident and the onset of darkening skies, repairs to the damaged lines could not have been effected on Saturday.
Nonetheless, our company had re-powered all affected customers in Berbice and Demerara by 18:26 hrs with repairs being instituted the following day, November 30 2014.
GPL stated that at 13:00 hrs, the 69kv line was de-energised to effect repairs and reconfigure the 11 kv line. As a result, customers in central Georgetown were affected until 16:00 hrs when the last community was re-powered.
INEWS REPORT
In response to an Inews report carried on December 1, 2014, captioned: “AFC members believe power outages were deliberate during Whim Rally,” it should be noted the GPL does not and will not practise deliberate interference with the supply of electricity to sabotage any public gathering whether it be political or non-political.
GPL said it is unfortunate that the occurrences of Saturday unfolded and affected the meeting held in Berbice, but as stated in content above, it was beyond the control of GPL.

To all affected customers, GPL extends sincerest apologies for the outages experienced this past weekend.