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Audrey Williams, Public Relations Manager at the JPS
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) says it has been forced to regulate supply to communities with high incidents of electricity theft in order to contain the cost to paying customers.
Audrey Williams, Public Relations Manager at the JPS, on Tuesday said some of the outages are also due to damaged equipment as a result of the high level of theft.
"We're having to pull back on capacity in order to protect people and their costs. Now, the customers in these areas, they're not being denied power supply, full stop, but yes, it is true that they are getting power at regulated intervals to try and contain the cost," she said.
Admitting that there is "nothing about this (situation) that is ideal," she lamented that some paying customers were suffering, whether from "haphazard inconvenience" because of equipment damage or "regulated inconvenience" due to theft.
Miss Williams disclosed that the JPS has installed devices at some locations in order to protect its equipment and "prevent electricity from being used at a level that is unsafe."
"So when the devices chip in, what it does is it allows the equipment to live to serve another day. So instead of buying another transformer or buying another piece of equipment, at least it can come back on and you can use it and you can spare the paying customer some additional expense," she explained.
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