The Fiji Electricity Authority will carry out major maintenance work at its Wailoa Power Station this Easter weekend and the whole of the Viti Levu will receive power supply through diesel generators.
FEA’s CEO Hasmukh Patel says they will replace a main inlet valve at the Wailoa Power Station and this critical work needs to be carried out over this long weekend as this exercise is time consuming and the electricity demand will be lower than on a normal working day.
FEA engineers will shut off the Wailoa Power Station which will mean FEA will not be able to generate electricity from Wailoa.
He says last year they did the same exercise and none of their customers were affected.
Patel says they will be mindful of the Fiji 7s team’s game times at the Singapore 7s this weekend.
He says the main inlet valve has cost them $3 million which has been brought from Italy.
Meanwhile FEA will also use this outage to carry out maintenance works on the Wailoa to Nadarivatu 132kv transmission lines from the Wailoa Power Station to Cunningham Road Substation.
