The current has returned to the Guyanese coast. By mid-morning, electricity was restored to all homes in Guyana, the prefecture said Tuesday. During the night from Monday to Tuesday, some of them had been without electricity for several hours.
“An interruption in the high-voltage power supply this morning caused a power outage in Guyana, located mainly on the coast,” the prefect said during a press conference on Tuesday morning. Most of the nearly 300,000 Guyanese live on the coast.
By mid-morning, electricity was restored to all homes, according to EDF, which explains in a press release that the “cut follows the safety of the two high-voltage lines connected to the Petit-Saut hydroelectric plant.” “The origin of the safety of the two lines is being investigated,” says the electricity distributor.
The most sensitive sites saved
“The most sensitive consumer sites with emergency capabilities have not been affected, particularly hospitals, the airport or the port,” the prefect specified.
The Ministries of Energy Transition and Overseas France wanted to recall on this occasion “the government’s support for the EDF power plant project called ‘Larivot'”, according to them “essential for the security of electricity supply in Guyana due to aging of the current Dégrad-des-Cannes thermal power plant”.
In mid-July, the administrative court of Guyana canceled the building permit granted in 2020 to EDF for the construction of a power station by the sea in Larivot, near Cayenne, a new episode in the intense legal battle that is being waged around this project ripping environmentalists and EDF, supported by the government.
Source: BFM TV
