Georgetown: After months of frustration about the electrical woes faced by Lethem residents, protest action was taken Tuesday to the streets as the Lethem Power Company Inc. (LMPCI) promises to restore an acceptable level of generation by mid-December 2012, and to provide a reasonable safety margin by the end of May 2013.
LMPCI extends regrets to the people of Lethem, and begs their patience until the relevant parts are sourced for the heavy duty generators. Over 100 residents picketed the power company.
The power company assures residents of Lethem that this period of difficulties did not result from inattention but, rather, from a series of unexpected, untimely failure of generator sets and from preoccupation with obtaining of fuel and maintaining operations during the period of the Linden unrest. Also, in all the areas where these new, small grids have been established, there is a wide variety of views on projections of growth in demand, and the actuality, and how they should be met. Additionally, there are differences on how ongoing and new costs are to be met, and there is need for much learning in operations and maintenance of gensets and networks. It has, thus, been taking much time to get to sufficient common understanding and to arrive at decisions that are sufficiently supported.
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