CAY BAY— A number of generators over the weekend experienced various mechanical problems causing short outages in various districts. As explained before, the generators are working to full capacity especially during the work week in order to meet demand and should one machine develop mechanical problems, outages and load shedding would be necessary and the public should continue to bear this in mind.
Once the two new 11.3 megawatt generators come online next month, the current outages being experienced will be a thing of the past as GEBE will have sufficient generating capacity to carry the load being generated by the community. Should one generator fall out, consumers will not experience any outage and the same can be said when required maintenance takes place.
Weekend outages in most cases lasted for less than an hour. GEBE technicians have been working around the clock to stabilize the generators that developed the problems. On Saturday morning DG#14 developed low water pressure which resulted in interruptions in service to customers from Low Lands to Oyster Pond.
Generator DG#17 tripped offline around 6.00pm on Saturday affecting Oyster Pond and the residential areas of St. Peters and South Reward.
On Sunday morning several areas including Belvedere, St. Peters, Saunders, Oyster Pond, Madame Estate and Guana Bay were without electricity service several times due to generators DG#15 and DG#17 going offline.
On Sunday and into the evening hours, GEBE technicians are working on DG#16 in order to ensure that there won’t be any interruptions when the load increases Monday morning due to the start of the work week when the demand for electricity increases.
GEBE continues to operate on a very tight electricity production schedule due to the high demand of electricity from customers especially during the work week.
GEBE apologizes for the inconvenience caused.
