In order to expand and upgrade the existing 69Kv substation in Sophia, a six-hour power outage is anticipated for North Sophia to Bygeval (Mahaica). Some sections of Georgetown will also be affected. This shutdown will occur on Sunday June 30 so that the new equipment can be connected. According to the power company, the works being done on the Sophia substation necessitated a number of power outages to consumers on the East Coast, parts of South Georgetown and East Bank Demerara.A release from the company stated that “now that new equipment has been positioned in the Sophia substation its complete shutdown is required to integrate this new equipment with the already existing ones.”The power company gave members of the media a tour of the substation which is currently under construction and which will supply power to a number of communities in Georgetown.Work being done on the site by Chinese and local labourers.GPL, in collaboration with the Government of Guyana and the China Export – Import Bank, through a concessionary US$38.963 million loan, is forging ahead with the development and expansion of GPL’s transmission and distribution system.This loan from the bank is supplemented by US$3.9 million from GPL’s revenue for the preparatory works,China Jerseys Wholesale, including route clearing, site preparation and backfilling to above 2005 flood levels.GPL said that the infrastructural development project will see the construction of seven new substations, approximately 96 km of 69 kV overhead transmission lines, the upgrade and expansion of three existing substations and the construction of a Fiber Optic Network linking all substations from Skeldon in the East,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, Edinburgh in the West and Garden of Eden in the South to a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system at the control centre in Sophia.These transmission lines and substation will serve to integrate major load centres along the coast, and will provide the capability to move bulk power from large, efficient,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, heavy fuel oil fired generating plants into Demerara and Berbice to those load centers.In addition,Cheap Jerseys From China Online, there will be new 13.8kV primary distribution feeder outlets at the substations which will allow existing long,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, overloaded feeders especially on the East and West Coast Demerara, to be segmented into shorter, more lightly loaded sections.GPL further stated that the first priority works on West Coast Demerara, were to be completed and commissioned since early December 2012. These said works were the expansion of the Kingston 69kV substation, the installation of a 69kV submarine substation cables across the Demerara River from Kingston to Vreed-en-Hoop, and Edinburgh and the construction of a 69kV transmission line linking the two new substations.According to GPL, these developments will result in improved quality of supply, system stability,NFL Jerseys China Wholesale, improved voltage regulations and the reduction of technical losses. They will also prepare the system to accept and distribute power from the Amaila Falls Hydroelectric project.