The Tribune

By SANCHESKA BROWN

Tribune Staff Reporter

sbrown@tribunemedia.net

RESIDENTIAL customers in New Providence will continue to experience short power outages until next Tuesday, BEC Chairman Leslie Miller said yesterday.

Mr Miller said the outages, that have been plaguing customers since Sunday, are the result of a faulty generator at BEC’s Baillou Hill Road Plant. “We just installed a new 25 megawatt machine at Baillou Hills and we are having some problems synchronising that engine into our mix.

“Once that is done, hopefully between now and Monday or Tuesday, things should go back to normal. In fact we apologise to all our customers for the interruptions, but they have not been on a great scale and it only happens at Baillou Hills (plant).

“When that happens, when we turn on the engine it does not collate with the apparatus that we have there and it sometimes flips the switch and causes the light to go off and we are working on it now, along with the people we bought the engine from, and so they are sorting it out.

“Hopefully in the next few days it should be rectified,” he said. “The interruptions will be for short periods and all will be less than an hour and during the day, when most people are to work or two school. There hasn’t been any major interruptions and you have had no blackouts and load shedding for the entire summer – not in New Providence or one Family Island. We are hoping to continue on that path, we hope to God the hurricane season is almost over and we hope we stay steadfast and we don’t want a hurricane to stop everything we are trying to do.”