Power outages in Buka
The National, Tuesday 20th December 2011
BUKA town in North Bougainville, is going through load-shedding of its electricity supply as PNG Power continues maintenance on the three main generators.
The generators are in various stages of maintenance – one is waiting for parts from overseas, the other is about to be commissioned after being serviced.
The third will take time to service after an electrical fire as a result of a technical fault during its first month of operation.
Frustration from business and residential clients is mounting despite PNG Power Buka putting out notices telling people about the load-shedding.
Business houses are claiming losses of thousands of kina as a result of intermittent power supply since Nov 17.
PNG Power Buka has urged clients who own generators to use them until the power supply is fully restored.