A team of Canadian and United States experts will be arriving in the island today to conduct investigations into the all-island power outage last month.
The team comprises members of the 2003 U.S./Canada Task Force, which was established to investigate a similar incident which
affected New York in the U.S., and Ontario, Canada. The team members are: David McFadden, Tom Rustler, Dr. Frank Massado, Chris Mock and Dr. Jon Carr.
Engineering causes
Information Minister Senator Colin Campbell said the experts would begin investigations on the technical and engineering causes of the blackout. The team will also probe administrative and regulatory aspects of the Jamaica Public Service Company's (JPS) operations.
The investigation is expected to last one week.
On July 15, homes and businesses islandwide were plunged into
darkness for hours as a result of a
systems shutdown, according to JPS initially.
Two weeks later, JPS reported that the blackout was triggered by a fault on the high-tension transmission line from Bogue in Montego Bay to Duncans, Trelawny.
