It's been going on for decades. BEC/BPL whatever they choose to call themselves are a disgrace. Really like a third world country with very high bills and poor, erratic service that destroys every thing with an electric plug. It ain't just Nassau either. I understand Abaco and Eleuthera have major challenges on a regular basis. I imagine it's nation-wide. Funny Freeport was always exempt from this shoddy service. I wonder why?

It's poor administration and it starts at the top. This top, last top, time before last top. So much nepotism. So much inefficiency. Guys out there risking their lives to restore power on a regular basis. Big shots don't care. They all have 'gennies'.

What did the Tourism Minister mean when he recently said BPL was partially privatized? Why are we paying foreigners to manager our corporation???? All they're doing is pocketing what Pillage Loot Plunder was foolish enough to give them. Why the hell isn't it run like a business? That's all it needs! Take the money received for the service, upgrade the equipment and cables as necessary, perform preventative maintenance and pay decent staff to keep the power running. Get rid of political appointees and slack dead weight.

Single Wire Earth Return folks, No ground wire at the top of the poles.
Lightning hits the hot wire every time! If a ground wire was atop the poles
that is what it would hit, Ground is all lightning wants!
This is why Florida has ground wires on all poles.
Freeport Power Aka G.B. power ain't far behind BEC/BPL.
In fact worse in some ways.

Single wire Earth return is only used in the U.S. for farm houses Etc far from a grid.
Cutting the wire needed by a third, along with half the power poles.( costs assumed by the recipient)
When this is used, after testing for a sufficient earth ground, the ground must be tested annually.
When was the last time anyone here had their ground tested? When was anyone here required to have their ground tested? (aside initial electrical inspection of a new service)
Very little gets blown up in Florida when the utility poles are hit, I was standing in a hotel entrance and watched lightning hit a pole not 100ft away. Hotel was fine. Phone, power, elevator, computers and internet, fine.
Now, lets talk phase angle and frequency stability.............

WE ARE A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY RUN BY THIRD WORLD POLITICIANS. THEREFORE WE HAVE THIRD WORLD POWER SUPPLY. IF THE POWER CABLES WERE BURIED UNDERGROUND THEN LIGHTNING WOULD NOT BE AN ISSUE BUT THIS WOULD COST MORE MONEY THAN WE ARE WILLING TO INVEST. IT HAS BEEN MORE IMPORTANT TO FLY MITCHELL ROUND THE WORLD OR HAVE A LARGE DELEGATION ACCOMPANY CHRISTIE TO MEET THE POPE OR TO SPEND FOUR HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS PROPPING UP ZNS OVER THE PAST DECADES.

Just about everyone knows that Paul Maynard is so corrupt and crooked that if he swallowed a long nail it would come out of his butt the next day looking like a cork screw!

Power Secure obviously is not the answer to our electricity woes. $900,000 per month and what is any different from what we have had to endure in the provision of electricity by BEC since the 1970's? Power Secure was supposed to come in and improve on what we had but no sign of that anywhere on the horizon. And having them regulated by URCA seems a monumental waste of time, money and resources. URCA is not doing anything about BPL's rates only focusing on sale of excess solar and other power to the grid which the small man will never benefit from as solar panels and batteries are not something he can afford, so only businesses and rich home owners will benefit from this program. Likewise, URCA has apublic consultation going on over BPL's consumer protection plan but the public would be hard-pressed to even know that the consultation is going on. URCA published information about it on their website then in typical fashion went absolutely quiet about it. Not one public meeting, no ads in the paper or on TV, no discussions about it on the call-in shows, NOTHING. Why? I suspect they don't want to explain any of it to the public or take any heat from the public over the nonsense that BPL wants to perpetrate on the the public like when URCA were dealing with the price increase application by Cable Bahamas. This is not how URCA is supposed to operate; they are supposed to act in the interest of the public and keep the public fully informed and engaged on anything that comes across URCA's desk that might adversely affect the public. All they have done is changed the law to benefit themselves while forgetting their mission and purpose. Time for a change at the top.

burying power cables does not eliminate lightning strikes.
Just makes them harder to detect and fix.