As stakeholders eagerly anticipate the detailed report from the Jamaica Public Service Company, JPS about what caused the islandwide blackout earlier this month, an engineering expert is not ruling out the possibility of more black-outs.
Dr Andrew Isaacs is Associate Professor at the School of Engineering at the University of Technology Jamaica, UTech.
Dr. Isaacs believes the JPS should be credited for the speed at which electricity was restored.
On Friday June 5, at about 9:02 PM, Jamaica was plunged into darkness as the JPS grid failed under what the company said initially were lightning strikes.
Dr. Isaacs says he’s keen to know why the lightning safeguard failed.
Dr Andrew Isaacs, Associate Professor at the School of Engineering at UTech, Jamaica.
He was speaking in an interview with our news centre.
