The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has apologised to customers who were affected by an unplanned outage early Sunday morning.
A major generating unit went offline unexpectedly, resulting in automatic load shedding as the system responded to protect itself and limit the extent of the outage, Winsome Callum, the company’s communications chief, told The Gleaner .
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The outage occurred about 1:41 a.m. and all customers were restored by 2:30 a.m., she said.
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The electricity distributor could not immediately state how many customers were affected
It was also unclear whether the blackout impacted multiple parishes, but the JPS confirmed that service to sections of a number of communities in Kingston and St Andrew, St James and St Catherine was disrupted
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