GPL generators arrive, installation to commence soon
Minister within the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar (right) witness the offloading of the equipment (Photo: Minister Deodat Indar FB/December 13, 2023)
According to the post, the equipment will be transported to the Columbia, East Coast Demerara substation where installation will commence to connect the equipment to the grid in “the coming days.”
The US$27M equipment from Apan Energy was initially slated to arrive in Guyana on November 22 and installation would have been done in time for the Christmas season.
Minister within the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar told the News Room recently said that generators and transformers were shipped separately to Guyana from different territories.
Despite the delay, Indar said that once the shipments arrive, preparations are already in place for installation to commence immediately.
Sixty containers of equipment arrived in the MV Skystar at the Muneshwars wharf (Photo: Minister within the Ministry of Public Works, Deodar Indar FB/ December 13, 2023)The country’s power company was forced to implement a load-shedding schedule across the country as it did not have the capacity to feed the increase in demand for electricity.
At present, GPL has the capacity to generate 167 megawatts. The demand at the beginning of November was 172 megawatts.
In the last week of November, Indar said GPL has recorded a decrease in its peak demand to 165 megawatts without having to remove customers from the national grid.
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