Sunday, August 31, 2025
Electricity supply in Central Andros was knocked out early Sunday after a fire broke out at the Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) plant in Fresh Creek.
BPL said its 1.1 MW trailer unit caught on fire leaving all consumers between Love Hill and Behring Point without power.
The power outage in Central Andros occurred around 6.30am on Sunday, BPL said.
The extent of the damage and restoration timeline were not immediately available. BPL said teams are working to restore power safely and speedily.
This is a developing story.
Comments
Porcupine says...
Power was out in some of Andros prior to, and during that time.
We live in a failed state. Let's get used to it.
Posted 31 August 2025, 9:02 a.m. Suggest removal
sheeprunner12 says...
It's plain to see that Brave's second attempt to reform BEC/BPL ..... first with PowerSecure & now with Pike/Focol will not end well for the average Bahamian electricity consumer.
A failed state starts with stupid leaders who oversee failed infrastructure and an unproductive stagnant society & economy.
Posted 31 August 2025, 10:30 a.m. Suggest removal
ThisIsOurs says...
I am starting to believe that the new owners are incapable of changing much but their profit margins.
**While power outages were continuously reported across the Bahamas, FOCOL proudly reported that they'd made a 20m dollar profit for the first half of the year, outpacing 2024 where their *entire* years profit was 29m.**
To add insult to injury, the BEC CEO reported to the nation that the reason Nassau consumers and businesses were seeing a 40% or greater increase over the already tripled "adjustment rate" bills of Q4 2024, was because they were forced to run more diesel engines at Blue Hills to compensate for increased summer demand.
But wasnt the objective of the privatization exercise to revolutionize energy and move us from diesel fuel? How could they at the same time declare rates increasing based on their inefficient operation and proudly declare what a killing theyd made in profits?? **Arent these sort of deals expected to be investment heavy and low to zero profits in the early years?**
This picture is looking oddly "Puerto Rico" familiar. Private entity takes over electricity grid promises revolutionary changes but things go from bad to worse. One natural disaster later, the entire system collapses. With the owners repeating the refrain, *this place was a mess when we got it you know*.
Posted 31 August 2025, 12:35 p.m. Suggest removal
Sickened says...
Let us think about this logically. How do the most people make the most profit when dealing with BPL? It's not in the maintenance. It's not in the daily operations. The big profit and quick money is in buying the machinery. For some reason middle men are always contracted out to secure the generators even though BPL can go direct. If generators do not have catastrophic
failures or catch on fire then there's no money to be made. The machines MUST be replaced so that cronies can make money.
Posted 1 September 2025, 9 a.m. Suggest removal
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