9 hours of ‘service interruption’ on May 19 – GPL

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has announced a nine-hour-long interruption to the supply of electricity in areas in Georgetown and on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) on Sunday, May 19, 2019.
Affected areas are: A to E Fields Sophia; North Sophia to Success, ECD; North and South Ruimveldt; Festival City; Shirley Field Ridley Square; Guyhoc Park and Gardens; Meadow Brook Gardens; Roxanne Burnham Gardens; Tucville; Stevedore Housing Scheme; and Lamaha Park and Springs.
GPL has said that interruption to the power supply is because it will be conducting vital maintenance work at its Sophia Substation.
These works include servicing of the 69kv busbars, and line maintenance activities on the critical L5 transmission line linking the Kingston to Sophia Substations, as well as the 69kv line linking the Sophia and New Georgetown Substations.
“As a result of this (development), customers (within the listed areas) will experience an interruption in the supply of electricity from 08:00hrs to 17:00hrs,” the GPL has said as it apologised for any inconvenience that would be caused.