Jamaica Public Service Outage: Kingston (Resolved)

Incident details

(Kingston – November 3, 2024 / 2:00pm) Energy company, JPS, has indicated that it is prepared and ready to respond to the potential impact of the adverse weather conditions that are expected to affect the island over the next few days. The Company will be activating its 24-hour Adverse Weather Incident Command Operations at 4:00pm today, to ensure safe and timely response to outages caused by the weather system. Information from the Meteorological Service indicates that the approaching system is likely to affect most parishes, with showers, thunderstorms and strong winds. These adverse conditions could result in power outages. JPS President & CEO, Hugh Grant, explained that, “JPS has already started taking the necessary actions to ensure that both JPS teams and Contractors are positioned to restore supply to the affected customers as safely and as quickly as possible.” He noted, however, that while every effort will be made to restore power supply to affected areas safely and quickly, the teams may not be able to respond immediately if it is unsafe to do so. “Depending on the severity of the impact of the adverse weather conditions on the power system, restoration could take hours,