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Re: Island wide blackout
[Re: SXMScubaman]
#259857
07/04/2021 10:10 AM
07/04/2021 10:10 AM
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Bahston
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Island-wide?
Isn’t French-side power provided by EDF, or has something changed from decades ago when I used to get an invoice from them?
I never see notices that EDF has an outage.
As to generators, maintenance isn’t that hard. Annual or semi-annual oil changes and air filter replacements are easy, and so are fuel filter replacements, Anything beyond that likely requires a field technician with a laptop. In a normal world, backup generators run for only a few dozen hours each year, and much of that is monthly testing. In a GEBE world, who knows.
Still, generator failures happen, and that’s when you call in a factory-trained tech who has factory software on their laptop, and expect to pay big bucks if they come from off-island.
Last edited by Bahston; 07/04/2021 10:11 AM.
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