Friday, September 11, 2020
BAHAMAS Power and Light experienced major engine disruption that caused an island-wide outage in New Providence on Friday.
The outage happened at 1.16pm and electricity was restored after 4pm, BPL said.
“Bahamas Power and Light Company Ltd reported that all customers affected by the island-wide outage that occurred at 1.16pm had their power restored by shortly after 4pm,” the company said in a statement shortly after 5pm.
“At 1.16pm, our system experienced a problem that caused the six engines online at Station A to come offline all at once. The mitigation systems were unable to deal with the sudden, unexpected loss of half the generation on the grid, which led to an island-wide outage."
Comments
Porcupine says...
Power out on Mangrove Cay. Will be till tomorrow they say. And, no water on the island, either. If we did more planning, along with praying , we may be allowed to enter this century. Oh yeah, the phones have been up and down all day, too. That's called a trifecta, i think.
Posted 11 September 2020, 7:48 p.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
Six engines went down at once? Does anybody think it was just a coincidence this happened at lunch time? Only in the Bahamas ...
Posted 11 September 2020, 9:19 p.m. Suggest removal
DDK says...
Friday is a favorite day for power failures. This is done to help the private sector vendors, who pay the high bills, have profitable sales on pay day and probably also so employees can take extended lunch hours.
Posted 12 September 2020, 1:35 p.m. Suggest removal
proudloudandfnm says...
This is amazing. BEC just cannot do its job. New engines but problems persist. And you people pay huge bills for their "service". I'd be sooo pissed.
Best thing I ever did was move off that dump of an island...
Ridiculous crime levels.
Dirty,
Ridiculous traffic,
Horrible service in every single industry,
Crowded.
What exactly is the benefit to living on that sh-thole of an island again?
Wow...
Posted 12 September 2020, noon Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
Uh ... gosh, tell us what you *really* think. You forgot to mention that, on the upside, everything is ungodly expensive.
Posted 12 September 2020, 12:08 p.m. Suggest removal
ThisIsOurs says...
you get to go to the beach. but they took that away
Posted 12 September 2020, 2:27 p.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
Sat in a long line at road traffic for three hours yesterday only to have them put one person at the front of the line to say they are closed until Monday because of the rain! After almost 50 years of independence we cannot inspect and license cars when it rains. Only to leave there and have the power go out upon arriving home. Still can't figure out why I love this country!
Posted 12 September 2020, 3:15 p.m. Suggest removal
Clamshell says...
... jeezus ... but pretty much an average Friday in Nassau, eh?
Posted 12 September 2020, 3:51 p.m. Suggest removal
Amused says...
Country is always full of excuses
Posted 12 September 2020, 9:04 p.m. Suggest removal
KapunkleUp says...
"major engine disruption"... I smell a new "engine restoration tax" coming to the BEC bill in the near future.
Posted 12 September 2020, 10:26 p.m. Suggest removal
Topdude says...
Ingratitude is worst than voodoo. Notwithstanding the fact that BEC is an entirely different story, I will not accept the the ungrateful comments about our country. Why is it that so many people are literally dying to come here.
Posted 14 September 2020, 6:51 p.m. Suggest removal
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