CGB, other areas on Tortola crippled by blackout
According to a notice posted on its website today, the BVIEC said that customers on Tortola in the areas of Luck Hill, Soldier’s Hill, Cane Garden Bay, a portion of Brewer’s Bay, Round Hill, a portion of Mayaba, Ballast Bay and a portion of Windy Bay “that there will be no electricity supply on Thursday April 10, [2014] between the hours of 9.30 am and 1.30 pm.”
When Virgin Islands News Online called the BVIEC for an update, a staff member stated that while the maintenance to the high voltage system was completed, the corporation suffered a shutdown of one of its generators and that workers were battling to get it up and running again.
“We have completed that scheduled outage that we had for Cane Garden Bay but we ran into a situation with one of our generators out there…we had a problem. It shut down on us. So we are working to get that engine back,” said a staff member of the BVIEC. He stated too that since the feeder was already off they decided to leave it off because of the shortage of power created by the shutting down of the unit. He said that power would have been restored within an hour however as at post time power had not returned.
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