CAY BAY— During the past couple of days including Monday, the GEBE Power Plant experienced some mechanical challenges. On Monday between 10am and 11am, Generator DG#8 went offline, resulting in a loss of approximately five megawatts. Customers in the Cupecoy area, Mullet Bay, Beacon Hill, Simpson Bay Village, and Airport Road were without electricity for a short period of time.
A load shedding schedule was drafted and placed on the GEBE website (www.nvgebe.com) announcing other areas that would experience load shedding, however due to the expedience of the GEBE technicians, the problem was located and resolved thereby avoiding having to implement load shedding for other districts on the island.
In the meantime, work continues on the two new 11.3 megawatt generators. Preparations to bring the generators online are going according to schedule and full testing is expected to commence within the next three weeks.
Last Friday and Saturday, GEBE experienced some mechanical challenges with several generators. The outage on Friday lasted approximately 30 minutes while the outage over the weekend on Saturday, affected customers in some districts of up to two hours.
GEBE technicians therefore spent the entire weekend troubleshooting and making the necessary repairs in order to ensure a consistent supply of electricity.
