The power blackout that occurred Sunday evening affecting several areas of the island was nothing to be alarmed about, according to Commonwealth Utilities Corp. executive director Gary Camacho.<\/p>\n
At about 6:37pm last Sunday, San Jose, Oleai, Susupe, and parts of Chalan Kano experienced a power outage that lasted about an hour and a half.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Camacho said the power interruption was due to multiple equipment failure.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a power interruption in the Kiya 4 circuit, which is in the substation near Chalan Kiya, affecting portions of Chalan Kanoa on Beach Road,\u201d said Camacho.<\/p>\n
A failed airbrake switch in front of the Ada Gymnasium and a capacitor failure in front of the Townhouse Shopping Center in Susupe tripped the outage.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt turns out switches failed due to age. [CUC] have bypassed it currently and are replacing them with new units,\u201d said Camacho.<\/p>\n
He said there is nothing to be alarmed about and that this would soon be resolved.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere would not be any problems moving forward,\u201d said Camacho.<\/p>\n
According to Camacho, the power got back to the areas at around 8pm last Sunday. About an hour and a half was used to \u201cverify and assess [the situation] before [CUC] could start to work on the isolation of the faulty components.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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