Connect Saint Helena Ltd would like to advise the public that as part of their preventative maintenance programme, a power outage has been scheduled for Thursday 25th November 2021 from 9:30am to 12:30pm, affecting consumers in Lower Wharf, Jamestown
 
This scheduled maintenance will allow Connect to isolate high voltage lines to carry out maintenance on feeder 5.
        
Connect Saint Helena Ltd thank their customers for their cooperation during this time.

Connect Saint Helena Ltd would like to advise the public that as part of their preventative maintenance programme, a power outage has been scheduled for Monday 15th November 2021 from 12:30pm to 2:30pm, affecting consumers in Barren Ground, West Lodge, Blue Hill and Head O Wain.

This scheduled maintenance will allow Connect to reinstate high voltage lines at Head O Wain.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
Connect Saint Helena Ltd thank their customers for their cooperation during this time.

​Connect Saint Helena Ltd are continuing to upgrade the water network in Half Tree Hollow.  As a result, the road starting at the junction near Mr Glen Owen’s residence to the turning near the Half Tree Hollow Playground will be closed to the public from Tuesday, 9th November to Tuesday, 30th November 2021 from 9am to 3pm on weekdays only. 
 
Only pedestrians and emergency vehicles will have access, however limited access for residential vehicular traffic will be granted accordingly with the alternative route to travel via the dirt road above the playground.
 
Signage will be in place to notify pedestrians and vehicular traffic of the road closure. 
 
Connect Saint Helena Ltd thanks the public for their cooperation during this road closure.

Arriving on the last voyage of the MV Helena were two engineers from Barloworld, who, along with Connect personnel will be performing a complete overhaul of two of the larger generators at the Power Station.  Once these generators have run for 27,000 hours (equivalent to just over 3 years), it is a requirement that they undergo a complete service which means dismantling the engines down to the engine block to assess all components and replace parts such as cylinder liners, pistons and bearings.

Due to travel restrictions in 2020, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Barloworld engineers were unable to travel to St Helena, so only small remedial maintenance was conducted on one of these generators who had reached the 27,000 hours running time.  The pandemic also impacted upon supply chains, so obtaining genuine spares in the right quantities continue to be a logistical challenge. 
 
In an effort to ensure a continuous production of electricity, with minimal disruption to all consumers, generators will be overhauled one at a time.

The engineers will be on Island until 22 December 2021 and during their stay will provide as much familiarisation and on the job training in this aspect of their work.