{"id":24213,"date":"2024-11-20T14:37:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T14:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=24213"},"modified":"2024-11-20T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T14:37:33","slug":"gpl-prepares-for-increased-energy-demands-during-festive-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/gpl-prepares-for-increased-energy-demands-during-festive-season\/","title":{"rendered":"GPL Prepares for Increased Energy Demands During Festive Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>October 25, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In preparation for the increased energy demand during the Christmas season, the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has already initiated measures to bolster the power supply. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, General Secretary of the People&#8217;s Progressive Party (PPP), revealed that GPL has gone out to tender for additional power generation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bids have been evaluated, and discussions for additional power supply are set to begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, GPL is focusing on upgrading transmission lines and investing in new equipment, such as a 20 MVA transformer, to improve the power distribution system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This follows years of underinvestment during the 2015\u20132020 period, which has led to failures in the aging infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jagdeo also explained that the frequency of power outages has been exacerbated by large-scale infrastructural projects, like roadworks and bridges, which require temporary disconnections of electricity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government plans to invest 200 million dollars this year to further upgrade the power distribution systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 25, 2024 In preparation for the increased energy demand during the Christmas season, the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) has already initiated measures to bolster the power supply.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24245,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24213\/revisions\/24245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}