No scheduled blackouts in Election Week

The Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) on Thursday announced that there will be no scheduled power outages throughout Guyana in the week of the General and Regional Elections.
The statement released by the power company stated, “In order to ensure continuity of electricity supply to all areas over the next week, GPL will be suspending non-emergency maintenance activities on our transmission and distribution system for the period 2020 February 29 to 2020 March 6.”
Taking into consideration security on E-day, it appears that the company is catering for the voting process, along with the Polling Stations that are on the outskirts of Georgetown.
During the voting process, information coming from these areas will be channelled through internet connections that solely depends on the company’s power supply.
GPL said that they will be vigilant all through the week, to address any issue that may arise around that time.
“GPL’s emergency crews and contractors will remain on alert to address any incidents resulting in or threatening to cause interruptions in supply”, the company noted.
GPL went on to note that in the case of an emergency, the company can be called for immediate intervention.
Meanwhile, citizens that may have a power emergency from February 29 to March 2, are asked to contact the GPL regional officers in their district.