Civil work to rebuild engine foundation taking place at VINLEC’s Cane Hall power plant Social Share
A project aimed to improve the efficiency and reliability of the generation capacity at the St Vincent Electricity Services Limited (VINLEC), is ongoing at the Company’s Cane Hall Power Plant. The Cane Hall Generation Expansion Project, estimated to cost an estimated EC$17.5-EC$18 million, will see the installation of two new Wartsila Units (generators). The execution of this project is influenced by the need for new and more efficient generating capacity to reliably meet system demand in the country, at least economic cost, a release from VINLEC states.
VINLEC to replace its aged generators
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$18 million expansion project ongoing at VINLEC power plant
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Opening of the Richmond hydro-electric plant in 1962 Social Share
When Vincentians flip an electrical switch in their houses today, it is taken for granted that light will automatically fill the room they are in.
Switchboard at the South Rivers power station
But in 1931, and for a long time after, families like those that 99-year-old Victoria Moses grew up in had no electrical switches to flip; in many cases, nature provided their light.
“Well in those days, there was no electricity. It was kerosene oil that people were using to get light at night. Some people would buy a lamp and up to now, I have a lamp from my parents in those days. You put the kerosene oil in the lamp and you light it with the matches and you get the light at night,” Moses told SEARCHLIGHT this week, just days after the St Electricity Services Limited (VINLEC) commemorated the 90th anniversary of electrification in the country.