The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) says 90% of its customers now have electricity.
It follows what JPS says is another innovative solution to provide electricity to sections of St. Elizabeth, despite the devastation of the backbone transmission network caused by Hurricane Melissa.
The innovation centres around the Maggotty hydroelectric power plant in Maggotty, St. Elizabeth - one of JPS's renewable energy plants.
It says, under normal circumstances, damage to the transmission network would prevent power generated at the hydro plant from reaching customers.
But a solution, conceptualised and developed by JPS team members, allows electricity from the renewable hydro plant to be fed directly into parts of the distribution network that are isolated from the rest of the grid.
The JPS says this isolated network, dubbed the Maggotty Island, has enabled approximately 2,000 customers to be energised.
JPS president and CEO Hugh Grant pointed out that the damage caused by the unprecedented Category 5 Hurricane Melissa required a different way of thinking.
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