Our monthly expenditures exceed $40m every month. Thirty million dollars on average is fuel.

O_O

It seems Whitney Heastie and Donovan Moxey are only capable of blaming previous PLP and FNM governments for our national state of emergency caused by BPL's crisis situation. These two clowns say little if anything about what steps are being taken to restore a reliable source of electricity for nation at the earliest possible time. They are political hacks appointed by our PM Minnis who are utterly unable to address the serious issues faced by BPL that have crippled our nation with devastating costly consequences for many of us and our businesses. AND WHERE IS OUR PM MINNIS? IS HE ON A LAVISH VACATION IN ANOTHER COUNTRY? IS HE HIDING? ONE THING IS FOR SURE, HE'S MIA !!

Anything to do with Shell North America has a lot to do with what ends up in Snake's pockets, whether directly or indirectly. Meanwhile Rome is burning down but Minnis remains nowhere to be found!

" Mr Heastie said this level of system failure now being experienced is one that could not have been anticipated." He forgot to add: "by an iditot".

LOL.

BPL has no right charging business a demand surcharge. They have no demand. It is stealing plain and simple. I am shocked no one has taken legal action regarding this charge as of yet. They are admitting they do not have the capacity. So how can you charge a business a demand charge so you have the capacity available when they need it?

Anyone else now playing BPL Bingo?

Guessing when you dare to cook a meal, or do laundry, or cool down after a hard day's work....wondering if this is the hour of day or night when your unlucky number comes up and you are pitched into darkness and 100+ degree temperature.

To say nothing of wondering when your fridge, tv, computer or light fixtures will be fried, causing yet more financial hardship.

Current here has been frying appliances for years. This is nothing new. Why wouldn't you spend the extra $20 and get a good surge protector for your stuff instead of waiting for it to fry just so you can complain.

The other day every surge protector in my house burnt up one time. 6 x 20 is 120 bucks. Still not cheap!

I have surge protectors and suppressants. I even had one placed in the main meter box and it was fried. I even rewired my entire house and ran an upgraded wire from the meter box to the circuit breaker and still there were problems. Come to find out, BPL had us wired wrong. They had to go on the pole and remove our wire from where it wasn't supposed to be. I am glad it was solved after numerous appliances frying and my house lighting up like it had a poltergeist.

Ma comrade Fitmiss, curious why you haven't filed damages claim under your homeowners insurance policy, yes, no ...

The lawyers behind pushing for handful African Populaces act likes they are so bent on believing Englishman's owes them slavery relocation monies be best shift focus to BPL who does owes thousands comrades Populaces refund reparations for undelivered and interrupted supply electricity, yes, no .... Its proven win case that even AG Carl Wilshire, will file assume that the learned Judge will assume that what the plaintiffs alleges against BPL, be provable facts .... Can't just make this up ....

you would think the government would have an answer but it's painfully obvious that "they ain't rightly know" . Failing FNM government

As usual, doing the math.
$2M monthly on interest, while we also rent 105MW (=50%) ?!?!?!?!
So what loans were those, if we are currently renting half the capacity, and what cost is that rent? Are we still paying off loans for the purchase of half-crippled generating capacity from way back? Maybe some priority should be given to refinancing or paying off these loans, that way the consumer might see some direct good from it.

Makes Populaces ponder if such educated BPL team can fail so miserably then judge degree incompetency comrade red shirts political appoints over there running water works, yes, no..... not making up how one set red shirts political appoints be's so much more schooling educated ....

The major objective of any business (after making a profit) is to meed the needs of its customers and at the levels they demand. But with BEC/BPL it appears that for some time their capacity to produce power was going in the opposite way of customer demands and the cost of producing power was increasing, despite new fuels, innovations and technology that can make electricity in the Bahamas dirt cheap. So why is this? Why is BPL rental generators producing more energy that its own equipment? and at a higher cost per unit. Is BPL being held hostage to be dependent on older and outdated fossil fuels and by whom?

We are not a sovereign country John - anything that says N.A. tells you who the hostage takers are.

Comrade customers BPL can engage lawyers file class-action law suit financial loss/damage equpiments/spoiled foods and medications covered under their home and business insurance polices, yes, no makes more legal sense than suing Englishman's over forced into colony's slavery ....

I plan to open a candle shop. Should be a millionaire in no time.

Ma comrade, brilliant idea and sign contract BPL supply and pay bill for supplying electricity customers with free candles, yes, no ...

Nah ... BPL would promise the candles, fail to deliver them, then charge double, plus a “fuel surcharge.”

Ma comrade ClamShell,here's a juicy no brainier missing puzzle piece.
How is it BPL will have actually incurred nearly a half of a billion dollars just on fuels be dirtying up colony's 700 islands, keys and inlets between January 1st, 2019 and December 31st, 2019, yes, no ... how can BPL truthfully look populaces in faces to even begin account nearly half billion dollars spent on fuel when BPL's power generating generators were not even in running condition ... where has all these unused millions gallons fuels disappeared to, or with whom.... I am not just making this wild story up likes did I mention BPL picks their customers pockets out millions dollars - supposedly some kinds fuel surcharges on fuel it doesn't actually use run their electricity power generating, generators ....

Ok,
So why would you have multiple rental failures ? Just please do advise!! Open the darn books, weekly updates, who decides on strategy? Wasn't there a foreign consultant on high salary and housing allowance for years in NP - where are those reports? Enough crap - call the defense force to monitor the plant please! Send a few officers off for training if needed.
Move generators from out islands if needed - if you aren't willing to do that then you must be able to rent more generators NOW for next March onward. Come on! Call in some SOLAR performance based contracting please on a massive scale -wouldnt it solve it - why not- special interests??? Do you have a Better option- NO.
A good manager surrounds herself/ himself with people technically smarter than her/him and doesn't let pride get in the way- call Elon Musk- anything but don't expect you can solve it year after year!

What do you mean by "move generators from the out islands if needed"? What you are now experiencing is something we have experienced in Eleuthera for decades. It has finally gotten better but just this week we have had multiple dips and outages. In fact, read my earlier post pertaining to surge suppressors and how my household items were fried.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul is not the solution. Unfortunately I am on the outside looking in and cannot give them suitable advice on what to do. I know that their business model is outdated and not working. I can only suggest upgrade the plant, purchase energy efficient and new equipment, hire trained staff, implement solar panels, even natural gas, but this right now is not working.

Hey under the FNM this term the electricity has been the best, better than under any previous government, truth or false?

Could be wrong but I believe under the last fnm government electricity reliability was at its best. In any case it doesn't matter - what matters is the actual cause, preventing it from happening again, and the long term solution.