CUC says oil leak led to outage
Caribbean Utilities Company
(CNS): Offering further explanation for the power outage Tuesday, CUC have said that interruption to service followed an emergency stop of one of their larger generating units by staff for a oil leak. “The sudden loss in generation caused the load-shedding of four feeders serving the various affected districts,” Grand Cayman’s power company said. The outage affected customers in parts of East End, Bodden Town, George Town and West Bay, who experienced interruptions to their electricity service between 7:11pm and 8:41pm.
“Following the start-up of additional generation, restoration of service to customers in a majority of the affected areas began at 7:35pm although customers in West Bay were not fully restored until 8:41pm,” CUC said. “The delay in restoring service to customers in West Bay was due to a communication systems failure with the circuit breaker in the Hydesville Substation on Willie Farrington Drive, which required field crews to visit the substation to reset and close the breaker.”
Approximately 4,500 of the CUC’s 28,000 customers were affected, the power company noted.
“CUC apologises for the inconvenience the outage may have caused,” a spokesperson said.
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Lucky it wasn’t hackers!
CUC counting down for there 50th Anniversary 36 days to go!!! Wonder if they going give us all FREE electricity for the day??? Or if we will get Pay-as-u-go meters like Cayman Brac?? Or better yet will they STOP guesting my bill and give the real figure??
An oil leak, that no doubt, we’ve all been charged import duty on. Can we get solar now please?
Tell me, who heads up the CUC? Why are people not calling for them to resign bearing in mind the appalling service we have had from them over the years?
clear as mud.
something went wrong, it got fixed. end of story.
Do we really need to hear about CUC’s monthly shedding?