{"id":54509,"date":"2021-07-30T17:09:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T21:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/?p=54509"},"modified":"2021-07-30T17:09:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T21:09:46","slug":"residents-in-melbrook-heights-and-marverly-to-benefit-from-major-jps-infrastructure-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/residents-in-melbrook-heights-and-marverly-to-benefit-from-major-jps-infrastructure-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents in Melbrook Heights and Marverly to Benefit from Major JPS Infrastructure Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSheader-300x92.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSheader-300x92.png 300w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSheader-600x184.png 600w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSheader-1024x314.png 1024w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSheader-768x236.png 768w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSheader.png 1238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\"><b>More Regularization Targetted<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">July 30, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Melbrook Heights Phase 2 in Harbour View, St. Andrew and\u00a0<span class=\"x_xxxmarkl4hw4rit4\">Marverly<\/span>\u00a0in Kingston, are set to benefit from JPS infrastructure upgrades. Under the Company\u2019s Community Renewal arm, the work being undertaken will provide safer and more reliable electricity supply to the communities. \u00a0The project is also encouraging regularization by bringing more people onto the grid legally. The new systems for these communities will be complete by September of this year, and have the benefit of prepaid capability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased with the work being done for our customers in both\u00a0<span class=\"x_xxxmarkl4hw4rit4\">Marverly<\/span>\u00a0and Melbrook Heights Phase 2. JPS\u2019 priority is keeping users of electricity safe and giving them access to reliable supply. The upgrades in these two areas will help us to achieve these targets, while increasing the number of legal customers on the grid,\u201d said Ramsay McDonald, Senior Vice President of Customer Services at JPS.<\/p>\n<p>JPS is investing approximately US$905,000 or approximately J$140M in its capital infrastructure in both communities.\u00a0\u00a0The Company is aiming to add 250 new customers to the already 521 legal customers in\u00a0<span class=\"x_xxxmarkl4hw4rit4\">Marverly<\/span>, and another 150 to the existing 235 paying customers in Melbrook Phase 2.<\/p>\n<p>With very high levels of\u00a0theft in\u00a0<span class=\"x_xxxmarkl4hw4rit4\">Marverly<\/span>\u00a0and Phase 2 of Melbrook Heights, the\u00a0infrastructure upgrades will remove existing illegal connections and, significantly reduce the likelihood of illegal connections.<\/p>\n<p>The JPS Community Renewal Programme which was first established in 2014, has been successful in converting thousands of households to legitimate electricity usage in\u00a0communities in Kingston, St. Andrew, St. Catherine and St. James.\u00a0\u00a0JPS continues to pledge its commitment to, not just providing electricity, but contributing to national development.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSfooter-300x51.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSfooter-300x51.png 300w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSfooter-600x102.png 600w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSfooter-1024x175.png 1024w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSfooter-768x132.png 768w, https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/JPSfooter.png 1249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Regularization Targetted July 30, 2021 Residents of Melbrook Heights Phase 2 in Harbour View, St. Andrew and\u00a0Marverly\u00a0in Kingston, are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4181,3663,525,4182],"class_list":["post-54509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-infrastructureupgrades","tag-jamaicapublicservicecompany","tag-jps","tag-regularization"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.svg","month_date":"Jul","day_date":"30","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carilec.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}