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T&T...Rousillac landslide puts 30% without power, Narper ???

 
sgtdjones 2022-08-17 14:49:39 

T&T...Rousillac landslide puts 30% without power, Narps ????


T&TEC subsequently indicated that due to a landslide at Grant Trace, Rousillac, a 220-kilovolt transmission tower that transmits power from the Trinidad Generation Unlimited (TGU) plant in La Brea to the rest of the grid fell, leaving approximately 30 per cent of customers out of supply. T&TEC immediately implemented rolling load shedding while engineers assessed the situation.

The Trinidad Generation Unlimited is Trinidad’s largest power generation plant.

Ten days ago, on August 6, thousands of customers also lost power across Trinidad due to a power generation issue, with T&TEC restoring supply within four hours.

WASA last night also said the power failure had impacted several of its plants across the country.

A couple of months ago a Palm Tree fell on a transmission line and T&T was without power for hours...



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Narper 2022-08-18 19:06:38 

In reply to sgtdjones

Grant Trace

My stomping ground dat.
That tower is on the side of the unfinished highway to Point Fortin which Growley stopped when he was elected...recently the Brazilian company won big compensation ....allrounder Gary Sobers was involved in the termination of their contract