A brief pow­er out­age af­fect­ed sev­er­al ar­eas across Trinidad af­ter a gen­er­a­tion unit tripped yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Re­spond­ing to ques­tions from Guardian Me­dia, Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath said he re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that TGU 11, pro­duc­ing 80 megawatts, tripped at 3.27 pm yes­ter­day.

He ex­plained that the un­der-fre­quen­cy scheme shed 13 feed­ers across var­i­ous parts of the is­land.

Padarath said five feed­ers were re­stored with­in 22 min­utes of the out­age, while the re­main­ing eight were re­stored with­in 36 min­utes.

He added that ini­tial re­ports point­ed to a de­fec­tive con­trol card as the like­ly cause of the trip.

“All sys­tems have re­sumed,” he said in a mes­sage sent to Guardian Me­dia at 5.18 pm yes­ter­day.

Re­ports on so­cial me­dia in­di­cat­ed out­ages in Cen­tral Trinidad, Mar­aval and parts of Pe­tit Val­ley.

There were al­so re­ports of build­ings along St Vin­cent Street in Port-of-Spain op­er­at­ing on gen­er­a­tors, in­clud­ing the Mag­is­trates’ Court, which was with­out elec­tric­i­ty dur­ing the out­age.