Demerara Waves Online News- Guyana Riding on the Crest of Truth
Last Updated on Monday, 22 September 2014, 23:18 by GxMedia
The Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) on Monday said strike action by workers at Skeldon Sugar Estate, which supplies bagasse-produced electricity to the national grid, coupled with a number of other technical problems has forced the power company to schedule blackout to a number of areas.
“GuySuCo is unable to supply energy to the grid because of industrial action at its Skeldon factory. It is uncertain when GuySuCo Skeldon operations will return to normalcy,” said the power company in a statement. “The scheduled outages may be significantly reduced if GuySuCo’s industrial action is resolved.”
GPL explained that generation capacity in the Demerara/Berbice Integrated System (DBIS) has been significantly reduced since Sunday due to shortfall in expected imported energy from GuySuCo, Skeldon, and the failure of the turbo charger on GPL’s No.3 Wartsila set located at Kingston, Georgetown. Unfortunately, these two incidents arose at a time when the No.1 Wartsila generator at the Kingston 1 plant is undergoing a major overhaul.
In the interim, the replacement component for the turbo charger is expected to arrive on Thursday night, and the machine will return to operation on Friday.
The No. 1 Diesel Generator at the Kingston 1 Plant is on schedule to return to service on Sunday, September 28.
Consequently, GPL has been forced to load shed in Demerara and Berbice since last evening. The company is trying its utmost to limit the duration of the outages, rotating between different areas. The detailed load shedding guide is attached. Customers are advised to visit our website at www.gplinc.com or visit GPL’s Facebook page at “GPL Inc” for the comprehensive load shedding guide and latest updates.
GPL regrets any inconvenience this may cause our customers in Demerara and Berbice and seeks your patience while we work to restore power to normalcy.
Load Shedding Guide for the period September 22 to 24, 2014
NB: In the first table; customers should locate their area along with the area code provided and in the second table, identify the time/date the area is scheduled for an outage.
| AREA A | AREA B | AREA C | AREA D | AREA E |
| DEMERARA
Sophia to Liliendaal Liliendaal to Industry Industry to Better Hope Better Hope To Success North Ruimveldt to Houston Industrial Site Ruimveldt, Alexander Village, Riverview Ruimveldt, National Paint Company & Mirror News Paper at Industrial Site R/Veldt, NAMILCO, Gafoors ,Ricks & Sari, Banks Scheme Houston to Agricola Agricola to Nandy Park GAB Good Hope to Lusignan to Mon Repos Public RdMon Repos to SuccessBERBICE # 53 to Moleson Creek |
DEMERARA
South R/Veldt Park- East of Green Heart St Festival City North R/Veldt South R/Veldt Gardens- East of Green Heart St Lamaha Springs South R/Veldt Gardens-West of Green Heart St South R/Veldt Park-West of Green Heart St Roxanne Burnham Gardens Guyhoc Gardens Stevedore, Tucville, Guyhoc Park, Lamaha Park, PP QQ Scheme Francois and Stone Ave to Hadfield St Lodge, Chinese Embassy Durban St, Norton St, Princess St- Lodge & Worthmanville, Meadow Brook, Werk en Rust- West of John St. Lodge Housing Scheme, Century Palm Gardens & Durban Backlands Prashad Nagar, Sections of Kitty Campbelville, Subryanville & Bel Air Park Queenstown & Albertown Good Hope to Victoria |
DEMERARA
Good Hope to Enmore Factory Rd Edinberg to Zeelugt Zeelugt to Philadelphia Philadelphia to Le Destin Le Destin to Lookout Versailles to La Retraite Sophia to Garnett St & Middle Walk Dam, Lamaha Gardens, Parts of Prashad Nagar BERBICE Auchlyne to # 53 Republic Road & Strand New Amsterdam |
DEMERARA
Victoria to Unity Unity Village to Bygeval Garden of Eden to Sarah Johanna Sarah Johanna to Soesdyke Junction Soesdyke Junction to Timehri Camp & Lamaha to Princes & Louisa Row Light St to Croal East of Camp St Barrack St and consumers on Fort St High Carmichael to Urquhart St Main St South of New Market St Holmes St to Lamaha St Lamaha St between Charmicheal & Light Sts Hope to Mocha Buss – Bee Dam to Diamond Diamond to Providence Mocha to Nandy Park Sussex St to Rahaman’s Turn: Public Rd La Penitence; G.P.C, National Printers, G.S.T. Banks DIH; Brewery & Biscuit Factory Environs of North East , East La Penitence & East Ruimveldt Environs of West La Penitence Nora St to Public Rd La Penitence BERBICE Onverwagt to Bygeval |
DEMERARA
Vreed En Hoop Sub Station to Best Best Village to Windsor Forest Edinburgh To Windsor Forest Garden of Eden to Craig Cable Crossing La Retraite to Vriesland Buss – Bee Dam to Diamond: Consumers between Craig and Diamond Diamond to Providence Sophia- ‘A’ to ‘E’ Fields Water St Kingston to Water & North Rd Water & Church Sts to Access Road Access Rd to Cornhill St Cornhill St to Sussex St Sussex St to Rahaman’s Turn
BERBICE Canefield to Auchlyne |
Load Shedding Time Period and Dates
| Period | Mon 22nd | Tue 23rd | Wed 24th |
| 08:00 – 12:00 hrs | Area B | Area E | Area D |
| 12:00 – 16:00 hrs | Area C | Area A | Area B |
| 16:00 – 20:00 hrs | Area D | Area B | Area C |
| 20:00 – 00:00 hrs | Area A | Area C | Area E |