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“The Commission further encourages consumers to report any case of damaged equipment to the nearest ECG/NEDCO office for the appropriate action failing which the report may be forwarded to the PURC for redress,” a statement from the PURC said.
The PURC ascribed the outages to the following reasons:
1. Technical challenges in the natural gas supply network;
2. New transmission infrastructure being constructed on the National Interconnected ‘Transmission System (NITS).
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3. Planned and unplanned maintenance activities on aspects of the NITS.
4. Reduction in reactive power support in the mid-portion of the country.
5. Emergency upgrade and modification works on the NITS to increase reactive power support and improve voltages in the mid-portion of the country.