PHILIPSBURG–The loss of “control air pressure” on one of the engines at the power plant of Utilities Company GEBE caused a domino effect resulting in a country wide power outage around 1:40pm on Wednesday.
Within half an hour GEBE’s Belair cable which feeds the Cay Hill area where St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) is located was restored. Power was gradually restored to other areas around the island during the course of the afternoon.
The power went off again shortly after it had been restored in some districts, but by 5:20pm all districts were fully restored.
Shortly before 8:00pm, a second outage gripped some areas. GEBE’s media relations representative Paula Gordon said last night that the evening outage was the result of an “issue” with one of the company’s smaller engines, which caused a larger engine to “trip.” The company’s operators and engineers were busy mid-evening Wednesday reenergising cables to restore power to the affected areas.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/63328-update-loss-of-air-pressure-on-engine-causes-country-wide-outage
With yesterdays power cut happening again we would be standing as per today with a salary cut of USD 4,000.- per head in the management team of GEBE.
Great idea! And yes the silence in Parliament, you know from those that claim to represent us, is DEAFENING!!!
Why does it happen that often only here with us? Other islands don’t have this problem.
Take off $2.000,- for every power failure from every member of the management teams monthly salary and I am confident that we will experience instantly a reliable constant supply.
These persons need to feel it in their pockets like us clients losing TV sets, computers, printers which have been shot because of this constant on and off followed by high voltage peaks. And I am not even talking about the loss in business revenues.
It is concerning that no MP is putting this up for public discussion, only interested in making noise about the Netherlands. So tiresome…