St Vincent 33kV Infrastructure Build, St Vincent and the Grenadines

Vinlec is responsible for the Generation & Transmission and Distribution of electricity to, 42,000 customers on the 32 islands of St Vincent & The Grenadines in the West Indies.

They recognised the necessity to upgrade the High Voltage network to keep up with demand and to expand the 33kV network interconnecting the new & existing diesel power stations with an existing Hydro station.  Wootton & Wootton were contracted to install all associated cable joints & terminations on the newly installed 33kV & 11kV cables.

South Rivers Hydro Station

To supply labour tools and equipment to install 3 x 33kV outdoor terminations
To supply labour tools and equipment to install 9 x 33kV indoor switchgear terminations
To supply labour tools and equipment to install 3 x 33kV indoor transformer terminations
To supply labour tools and equipment to breakdown the existing 11kV cable box & modify gland plate to suit
To supply labour tools and equipment to install 3 x 11kV indoor switchgear terminations
To supply labour tools and equipment to install 3 x 11kV indoor transformer terminations

Kingstown S/S

To supply labour tools and equipment to install 12 x 33 KV straight joints
To supply labour tools and equipment to install 6 x 33kV outdoor terminations
To supply labour tools and equipment to install 6 x 33kV indoor switchgear terminations

Lowmans Bay Power Station

To supply labour tools and equipment to install 6 x 33kV outdoor terminations
To supply labour tools and equipment to install 6 x 33kV indoor switchgear terminations

Cane Hall Power station

To supply labour tools and equipment to install 9 x 33kV outdoor terminations
To supply labour tools and equipment to install 15 x 33kV indoor switchgear terminations
To supply labour tools and equipment to install 6 x 33kV indoor transformer terminations
To supply labour tools and equipment to install 6 x 11kV indoor switchgear terminations
To supply labour tools and equipment to install 6 x 11kV indoor transformer terminations

After a difficult & frustrating project in a country where there is little in the way of infrastucture the works were completed within the given timescales and on budget.