ELECTRICITY INTERRUPTION
UPDATE
Sunday, 18th May, 2025
The APUA Electricity Business Unit sincerely apologises for the disruption in electricity supply experienced by some of our customers from Saturday evening into today, Sunday 18
May 2025.
The interruption began at 7:15 p.m. on Saturday 17 May with the tripping of the first of four circuits (feeders). Restoration efforts continued throughout the night, and by 8:55 a.m. on Sunday, all affected feeders had been successfully closed. However, as of 10:00 a.m., seven areas were still without power. By midday, only one area remained out of supply.
We expect electricity to be restored to the remaining area, Pattersons Liberta, later this afternoon.
The main areas that were impacted during the outage include:
- Cassada Gardens #7, Swetes #4, a section of Swetes #2 including the Ivan Rodrigues RO Plant, Vernons, Cedar Hill, Jonas Road, All Saints, and Liberta up to the Police Station
- Five Island #1 and Swetes #3, which includes Cooks, Bolans, Crab Hill, and up to the burial ground in Old Road
- Cassada Gardens #9 and #3, Friars Hill Southeast, which includes Utility Drive, New Winthorpes, Cedar Valley, Royal Gardens, Cedar Grove, Epicurean Supermarket, and the Woods Shopping Center area
- Belmont #4, which includes Jennings and the area up to Hermitage Hotel.
Customers who are still without electricity are encouraged to contact our Contact Centre at 311 to report their fault.
We understand how important electricity is and assure you that our team is working diligently to restore power to those affected in the safest and soonest possible time.
We truly regret any inconvenience this may have caused and thank you for your continued
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Good stuff. Thanks for the information.
Electricity was off in my area but I knew that the safety for the employees comes first.
It came back today (Sunday) approximately one hour after the time I surmised it would (all things being equal).
Good going A.P.U.A.
We are in a hurricane zone We get tropical storms. We get rain, thunder and lightening and yet after 50 years, we are still a dry weather country. And APUA still tries to convince us that they even have a clue of what they are doing. I don’t blame the ordinary workers. We want them to be safe. Blame all the governments and management who have had no development plan. In North American and Europe they deal with snow and don’t have these problems.
This is why we need a real engineer as the electricity manager and not one entitled because of family political persuasion and connection to private power supply company.
The lines need apparatus to mitigate against these transients that suppress the power to customers, like static vars compensator and the solar farm been equiped with batteries.
But on the other hand heads up to the hard working linesman.
I am proposing a thank you lines man sign be place along our major highway to boost their morale, and the naming of the different substation to names of outstanding workers present and past, and a power station should be named after men like George Piggott, oops! We don’t have no power station because of what ostensibly appears to be complicity of the head of Apua electricity management.