{"id":26210,"date":"2025-02-08T21:40:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T21:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26210"},"modified":"2025-02-08T21:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T21:40:45","slug":"vehicular-collisions-account-for-96-of-power-outages-in-2024-says-minister-indar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/vehicular-collisions-account-for-96-of-power-outages-in-2024-says-minister-indar\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicular Collisions Account for 96% of Power Outages in 2024, Says Minister Indar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Saskia Warrick | January 7, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister within the Public Works Ministry, Deodat Indar, revealed that a significant cause of power outages in 2024 was vehicular collisions, which accounted for 96% of the incidents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite Guyana Power &amp; Light (GPL) having an excess generating capacity, these accidents have continued to impact the stability of the electrical supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Indar explained that the damage caused by these vehicular collisions to GPL infrastructure has led to widespread disruptions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, the ministry has instructed GPL to pursue legal action against those responsible for the accidents and to recover the associated repair costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to addressing the issue of vehicle collisions, Minister Indar noted that scheduled maintenance would be carried out across the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With GPL\u2019s current peak demand at 205 megawatts and a capacity of 267 megawatts, thanks to a second power ship, the government is ensuring that maintenance works will not result in power outages for customers during this period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The increase in generating capacity is a key part of the government&#8217;s ongoing efforts to improve the reliability of the country\u2019s electricity supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Saskia Warrick | January 7, 2025 Minister within the Public Works Ministry, Deodat Indar, revealed that a significant cause of power outages in 2024 was vehicular collisions, which accounted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210","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=26210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26211,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210\/revisions\/26211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}