Following an embarrassing power outage at the National Stadium, Providence during an internationally televised CPL match on Tuesday night that paused the game for almost two hours, the Guyana Power and Light Company has made it clear that the stadium is powered by independent generating sets and GPL’s technicians were only on standby to assist with any issue.
In a late night joint statement, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) explained that three of the six floodlights at the National Stadium lost power during the cricket match.
According to the statement, all CPL matches at the Providence Stadium, are powered from independent Generating Sets located in the National Stadium and not by the GPL grid. GPL said it has been on standby at all matches to render technical assistance to the Stadium at all times.
It was explained that when the floodlights went down, the GPL technical team on standby immediately began rendering assistance and restored power to two of three floodlights on the same circuit.
The joint statement said the Stadium’s Technical staff and GPL worked assiduously to restore power to the third floodlight which had a technical fault with the underground cable feeding power to that Floodlight.
A substitute cable was installed to have the floodlight operational and that was achieved just before 11pm.
The Sport Ministry and GPL have now promised that additional technical assessment will be done immediately after the game to avoid any reoccurrence.
There were two similar incidents involving the same flood lights at the Providence stadium recently. One of those incidents took place during the finals of a T10 tournament and the other incident took place during a practice session of the Amazon Warriors cricket team.
Source: News Source Guyana
