SECTIONS of the East Coast and East Bank Demerara were affected by hours of power outages Monday, and the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) yesterday sought to explain the attendant circumstances.A GPL press release said that at approximately 10:40hrs on Monday, a damaged line hardware at Clonbrook, ECD resulted in a line trip which caused an interruption in the supply of electricity from Unity, Mahaica to Lowlands until 16:45hrs.

Unfortunately, at 23:30 hrs on Monday night, a fallen tree caused severe damage to the network and affected the same area. Owing to the weather constraints and time of occurrence, remedial work commenced at sunrise which resulted in electricity being restored at 09:15hrs on Tuesday.

Regrettably, customers from Industrial Site to Houston on the EBD had to be without electricity from 10:00hrs on Monday due to a yet to be determined fault. GPL technicians are at present carrying out detailed checks on the affected feeder to ascertain and subsequently correct the fault.

A defective transformer, which has since been isolated from the network, resulted in sections of Houston to Agricola being without power from 10:00hrs Monday to 03:00hrs Tuesday while consumers from Diamond Public Road to Eccles were affected from 10:00hrs to 18:30hrs yesterday.

In the meantime, GPL has assured that every effort is being made to restore electricity to customers still affected and appeal for their patience. “We extend our sincerest of apologies for the inconvenience caused,” the release concluded.