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‘Load-shedding schedule will be followed’
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Posted on Sep 05 2008
The Commonwealth Utilities Corp. will work on trying to follow the load-shedding schedule more accurately, a CUC official said yesterday.
There have been complaints from customers that their daily outages are not taking place at the scheduled time, said Power Division manager Gary Camacho.
“The schedule will be followed next week,” he said.
CUC is releasing a revised schedule after an engine went down yesterday morning.
Under the new schedule, each area will experience three-hour outages three times in a 24-hour period. CUC is also tweaking the feeders that are grouped together. Each area is going to experience extended outages, he said.
This week, some areas have not experienced scheduled outages because CUC has been able to produce more power, Camacho said. On Thursday, CUC was able to produce approximately 27 megawatts of power. About 41 megawatts of power is needed to sufficiently power the island. CUC has produced as little as 19 megawatts in the last few weeks.
“When the weather is cooler, like right now, we’re able to run the engines longer,” Camacho said.
With the state of the engines right now and the lack of reserve, CUC is trying its best to fulfill the island demand throughout the day, he added.
CUC executive director Antonio Muña said earlier this week that CUC can no longer guarantee 24-hour power to the airport, which has experienced two outages in the last few weeks and delayed flights.
