Dominica Electricity Services Ltd (Domlec) has announced that it is working diligently to repair damaged hydro pipelines which has resulted in a 50% reduction in the company’s hydro capacity.
DOMLEC generation manager, Dave Stamp, said at a press conference on Tuesday, that the damage to the pipelines occurred over the weekend in the area between the Fresh Water Lake and the Laudat Power Station. He said the resultant halving of its hydro capacity is equivalent to a 30% loss in the company’s total capacity.
Stamp revealed that the damage was caused by surface water and a stream from the previous rainfall that eroded the foundation of the support for the pipes.
The company is still undertaking restoration work in the Laudat area due to Tropical Storm Erika and Hurricane Matthew, and as such, was able to mobilize a rapid response team to work on the damaged pipelines, with the hope of having them restored within this week, the DOMLEC official stated.
He said the company has already taken measures to ensure that they are still able to bring power to customers by reaching out to customers with large generating systems like Ross University and asking them to step off the grid for some time and self-generate their electricity, so as to free up the capacity for customers who are unable to generate their own electricity.
This headline reads “DOMLEC loses hydro capacity…;” stale news. That happened a long time ago unfortunately. This demonstrates that they have absolutely no respect for the people of Dominica who have the God given gift of water-producing jungles, with rivers, water, water, rivers and more water. They have no interest in HYDRO that was handed to them on a platter for free. They even have the guts to tell us rivers are drying up. Highly incompetent company, that in itself is treasonous. Shame, shame, shame on Domlec.
I hear Dominica Gov’t has already spent $50 mil on geothermal and is looking for more millions to complete it just to hand geothermal to Domlec just as they handed HYDRO to Domlec with this distructive track record. We do not have to wonder what will happen. Hydro anyone??
They are wrong, very wrong not to have at least 75% hydro. A little pipe break and they crying, making press conference? In the abundance of WATER it is a sin. Contracts need to be revised and better consumer oriented contracts written with these bastards.
A 5.5 earthquake just occurred in Dominica. Could it also have contributed to this situation?
Never maintain – get what should be expected.
Keep up the good works