Georgetown :The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) in its move to increase its generation capacity to meet the growing demand for power supply has procured additional generation units for the Kingston power plant, which arrived yesterday at the John Fernandes Limited wharf, Water Street.
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds who holds responsibility for the energy sector joined officials from GPL to witness the offloading of the generating units and their ancillary parts and accessories off the MV BBC Austria cargo ship.
The two 7.7.MW generators sets; Prime Minster Hinds said will complement the 20-megawatt Wartsila units at the Kingston plant.
He also noted that 20 MW units have already reached its 10,000 hours of operation and maintenance work has already commenced.
