Harbour View Residents Benefitting from Improved JPS Service – System upgrade brings new, efficient infrastructure to include Smart LED Streetlights September 30, 2020 Residents of Harbour View in St. Andrew are already experiencing improved service from JPS, as the System Upgrade Project in their community advances. Better quality lighting along roadways, as well as fewer […]
JPS is now welcoming new customers on the grid, in the Standpipe community of Liguanea, St. Andrew. The Company has been working since earlier this year, to regularize over 140 households in addition to the 300 existing customers in the community. Having installed a new system in the area, JPS originally set a target of […]
Sophisticated Electricity Theft Discovered in Smokeyvale, St. Andrew – Crews Also Remove Over 1,455 Pounds of Illegal Connections in Kgn Last weekend, JPS crews carrying out routine meter investigations discovered a sophisticated device used to commit electricity theft. The device was found buried in the backwall of a large 5 bedroom house in Smokeyvale St. […]
May 12, 2020 JPS has increased the availability of a powerful energy management tool for businesses who have to make critical and sustainable decisions for efficient use of energy during this catastrophic COVID-19 season. This tool, which uses Smart Meter data, is already being actively used by approximately sixty (60) commercial customers who possess single […]
April 27, 2020 Today (April 27), JPS major shareholder, East West Power Korea (EWP) donated two diagnostic machines and 7,500 testing kits for COVID-19, through the JPS Foundation, to the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI). The gift will improve the UHWI’s testing capacity from 200 per day to 986 per day – a […]
On Friday (April 24), JPS handed over several care packages for the disabled, to assist them during the COVID-19 crisis. The gift was presented to the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities – an agency of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, at the ministry’s Marcus Garvey Drive warehouse in Kingston. Speaking at the handover, […]
April 23, 2020 Applications for support under JPS’ COVID-19 Relief Programme for elderly and disabled customers, will close at 12 midnight tomorrow, Friday April 24. The Company’s J$10M COVID-19 Relief Programme, which was announced at the end of February during JPS’ Digital Town Hall meeting, offered bill-payment relief as well as care packages to our customers in […]
April 21, 2020 Energy Company, JPS, has indicated that investigations are continuing into the cause of last night’s power outage, which affected several communities in the parishes of Kingston, St Andrew and St Catherine. The Company is reporting that one of its main transmission lines that bring power into the corporate area tripped, initiating the […]