Power restoration to entire VI may take 'a month less'- Henry O. Creque
The BVIEC recently welcomed a utility team from Canada known as Valard to add to the help already received from several Caribbean islands.
“We estimate that these crews on the ground so far will help us to reduce our efforts, our time to restore the whole Territory by approximately one month and we hope that with more persons coming in we would have an even further reduction,” Mr Creque said in update by the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) on November 6, 2017.
Efforts to reach Mr Creque; however, for a timeframe on when power would be fully restored were successful.
“We have had help from our colleagues from other utilities around the region including from island such as Aruba, Grenada, Belize, St. Vincent, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, St. Lucia, and of course we have some temporary workers, locally, who we also employed, who all come together and been making this restoration effort very successful so far,” Mr Creque also stated in his interview.
The BVIEC is currently receiving a peak demand of 12.5 megawatts with just over 30% of the population receiving power.
UK sponsoring Canadian utility team
Meanwhile, Mr Creque said Valard has been sponsored by the Government of the United Kingdom.
“They are sponsoring 27 more utility workers to come and assist us and we will place them to work on two of the distribution feeders which have not been started as yet, which will leave only one more feeder which has not been started and we should be starting on that very shortly after.”
The Canadian team which is made up of 27 members will focus their attention on restoring two of the three electrical feeder systems that have been out of operation, Creque said.
Mr Creque also did not respond to our question about which areas the various feeders will service.
In a previous interview with General Manager of BVIEC, Leroy A. E. Abraham, he had said he was not able to tell when full power would be restored to the Territory because there are many factors that come into play that can affect the process.
"I cannot say when power will be restored. There are three variables that will determine when, which is money, man power and materials to reconstruct the entire grid and all three of them are changing," Mr Abraham had explained.
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