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Half of Barbados Light and Power Company customers are now connected to an automated electricity grid, a shift it expects will sharply cut outage times and improve reliability, with some faults resolved in under two minutes, the company said Wednesday.
The announcement came at a press conference at the company’s Garrison headquarters, where officials outlined progress on the multi-million-dollar grid modernisation project, which began in 2016.
David Haynes, operations technology administrator, described the development as a major achievement not only for Barbados but for utilities across the Caribbean:
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