This clearly sounds like a step into more darkness. So what happens when this cable gets damaged? It takes days sometimes to repair cables on land. A submarine cable will require a ship with special equipment. How long will it take for the ship to get here? If the plan would take two years to implement why can't BEC's existing plant be renovated and refurbished over a similar time frame? The cost of the submarine cable could probably purchase the first new, fuel efficient engine. What about distribution after the power gets her and proper billing and accounting for electricity. Is this another pie in the sky or a pipe dream?

Excellent, practical and workable idea....Extremely poor presentation!

Not sure which is goofier....Mortimer's idea or his bugs bunny ears!

Comrades cuz it foreigner owned is no guaranteed formula it goin be any cheaper. isn't there foreigner ownership supplying Grand Bahama with their power? A recent report states that locally based Grand Bahama businesses and households are paying a crippling (383) per cent more in power costs than their Florida-based counterparts. The DNA ain't even won no seat in House of Assembly and they done gone's, all foreigner on the natives. How could a political party that doesn't have even an elected by convention delegates leader, or party executives, receive so much red newspaper coverage? I guess, they is more red than green?

Think about it though. In Florida they are not just using fossil fuel to run their power plants. In Florida they actually have nuclear power in addition to very large solar fields to generate power. There is no such system here in the Bahamas. We depend solely on one source for power.

Snore :-(

Comrades no shortage Monday morning humor when we think that the same BEC that can't fix a big ass 50,000 lbs, big ass made steel generator steering them right in eyes, will all of a sudden be capable of troubleshooting and fixing a non-functioning submersible power cable, burried at 500 feets under water and running 240 miles all way from Florida to Nassau Town. Good luck waiting ya lights come back on, as the new BEC, try properly diagnose and repair cables under 500 feets water, Am I da only one laughing?

Undersea power line from Norway to Denmark...more to come.

"The 240-kilometer cable across the Skagerrak Strait separating southern Norway and northern Denmark is Norway’s first new power link to Denmark since 1993. Called Skagerrak 4, its high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converters—the electronic units at either end of the line that transform AC into high-voltage DC and vice versa—are also the building blocks for more ambitious cables from Norway to wind-power heavyweights Germany and the United Kingdom. Construction on those is expected to commence during the coming year."

Maybe more real than we think!

Why is this such a "foolish idea"???????? We have less than 100,000 active BEC customers!!!!!!! Thats nothing for FPL to supply electricity to!!!!!! Not even a small county in Florida.

This proposal is not impossible to do because cables are already running from South America to North America as far as communication cable for giants companies such as ATT. But as mentioned in other post, do we want to have a foreign company in a foreign land control our power source. That is something that needs to be thought through thoroughly.

Anyone remember when Cable Bahamas' underwater cable was cut?