Trinidad Gen­er­a­tion Un­lim­it­ed (TGU) has con­firmed that a “brief dis­rup­tion to gas sup­ply” was be­hind the pow­er out­ages ex­pe­ri­enced by much of the coun­try on Wednes­day.

“Trinidad Gen­er­a­tion Un­lim­it­ed (TGU) wish­es to in­form all its stake­hold­ers that dur­ing NGC works on 22nd De­cem­ber 2021, there was a brief dis­rup­tion to gas sup­ply.  This trig­gered a loss of pow­er gen­er­a­tion as re­port­ed,” the com­pa­ny ex­plained in a news state­ment is­sued this morn­ing.

The com­pa­ny said it was able to have the mat­ter re­solved fair­ly quick­ly with some help from the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC):

“Notwith­stand­ing, work­ing in con­junc­tion with NGC, the nat­ur­al gas sup­ply to TGU was ef­fi­cient­ly re­stored and the dis­rup­tion was re­solved.  TGU was sub­se­quent­ly able to gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty to the na­tion­al grid in the short­est pos­si­ble time­frame.”

Sev­er­al parts of Trinidad lost elec­tric­i­ty ser­vice just be­fore mid­day on Wednes­day, from Pe­nal in the south to Port of Spain in the north, and San­gre Grande in the east.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) cur­rent­ly is await­ing a re­port from an in­de­pen­dent pow­er provider about yes­ter­day’s mid-morn­ing pow­er out­age, as it seeks to de­ter­mine ex­act­ly why it oc­curred.