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Woodlands Checkpoint power outage: ICA to deploy more generators during maintenance periods




The Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) will be deploying additional generators as backups during future maintenance periods to avoid another power outage incident at the checkpoints, said Minister of State for Home Affairs Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim on Thursday (Oct 20) in Parliament.

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These generators will complement a "secondary electrical infrastructure” that ICA had already planned to build to “further enhance power resiliency at Woodlands and Tuas Checkpoints” prior to the incident at Woodlands Checkpoint earlier this month which caused issues with immigration clearance for several hours.

On Oct 8 at around 11.40pm, ICA was conducting a scheduled maintenance of the power source at Woodlands Checkpoint. The timing was chosen as it is typically an off-peak period at the checkpoint, said Associate Professor Faishal.

As part of the maintenance, the backup power generator was activated to provide power.

But at around 12.20am on Oct 9, the backup power generator failed, resulting in a power outage that disrupted checkpoint operations.

Power was restored at around 4am and immigration clearance resumed at about 5.15am.