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Essequibo Coast to brace for load shedding until Christmas

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While power has been restored on the Essequibo Coast, residents will have to brace themselves for several months of electrical load shedding as the authorities accelerate the conversion from a 50 Cycle to 60 Cycle until Christmas; by which time new generating capacity should be installed.
 
This announcement was made today (Thursday) by Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, who was at the time responding to Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) Member of Parliament Dharamkumar Seeraj’s official queries on the state of the electrical system on the Essequibo Coast following several weeks of massive outages.
 
Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson

Minister Patterson told the Members of the National Assembly that the gasket of the 25 year old Wartsila Generating set at Anna Regina was the source of the problem.

He said, this has since been repaired  but the genset continues to be besieged by age-related problems.
 
According to the minister, Government has ordered three 1.8MW plans and their components are currently en-route to Guyana.
He explained that Government expects the new generating plant to be fully installed by Christmas during which time the company will be looking to complete the conversion of the grid.
This conversion, he told the House, will lead to load shedding up until its completion.  
  

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Mitwah posted:

Most of the world is using 50Hz. What are  the benefits of switching for 50 to 60? The difference in cost is negligible. 

Must be because the new generating equipment dem getting is 60 and me believe the world standard is 60.

If 50 generating equipment is non standard, they might be more expensive, thus the change over.  

I worked on ships with radio equipment built in Belgium, but since the ship stayed mostly around North America, Caribbean Asia and South Pacific, it was much more difficult to get spare parts. Marconi equipment built in North America was quicker to repair, due to quicker availability of spare parts.

A ship stuck in port due to defective radio equipment, can be very costly to ship  owners, while the radio officer sit around drinking tax free beer.    

Tola

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