The Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) Electricity Business Unit has been working extensively to restore power following a major outage caused by a fault at the Friars Hill substation.
Electricity Manager Andre Matthias explained that, in addition to the substation fault, the system collapsed, leading to further issues on Tuesday. Challenges included problems with feeders, vegetation management, and insulators on the lines as they attempted to restore power.
As of late Wednesday, about 95 percent of APUA customers had their power restored, with full restoration expected by Thursday.
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Suppose we hard a serious storm? APUA’s network need some serious resilience, toughness and vigor as it seems to always fold in heavy rains and light winds. How can we function like this in an era when it is predicted that we would have increasing numbers of storms and hurricanes. APUA’s network is like crix crackers. Once wet, it gets out of shape.
If we get a serious storm, don’t be surprised if many of us lose power for months. How long did the island have no power after Hurricane Luis smashed the place up? I’m sure everyone remembers the stories from Puerto Rico in 2017 when Hurricane Maria destroyed their electrical grid and it took months for the power to be restored to everyone there. Tropical Storm Ernesto caused hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans to lose power too.
The day-to-day issues with APUA are bad enough but the aftermath of a major hurricane hitting the island and what it would do to their network is scary to think about.
But wait? What we got, for even a discussion of restoring electricity. What if we got a hurricane 🌀. This is no joke.
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