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    Vinlec reports on last Thursday power outage

    April 10, 2019No Comments1 Min Read
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    The St. Vincent Electricity Services (VINLEC) says its
    investigations have revealed that last week Thursday’s power
    the outage was triggered by a series of events which started at 11:59
    am.

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    VINLEC says following the routine maintenance of one of their
    two 15 MVA transformers at the Lowmans Bay Power Station,
    the work teams executed a standard procedure to return the
    transformer to service.


    However, in executing this procedure that has been in place for
    last 12 years, the system experienced a current inrush that
    was notably higher than previously encountered or anticipated.
    This caused a partial collapse of the system which accounted for
    approximately 75 percent of VINLEC’s customers.


    VINLEC says the process of restoring power to customers did
    not progress as smoothly as planned and this resulted in an
    entire system outage at 12:42 pm.

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    It adds that immediately thereafter, their Technical teams began
    work to restore the system in phases.

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