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30. June 2008 by admin.
The Bahamas Electricity Corporation said that faulted cables at the Blue Hills Power Station were the cause of an island-wide blackout in New Providence that lasted for more than four hours in some areas on Friday.
According to a press statement released by the corporation late Friday, an 11,000 volt cable within the Blue Hills Power Station compound faulted.
“The force of the cable fault caused a nearby 33,000 volts generator cable to be damaged by a manhole cover,” the press release said. “This resulted in an island-wide outage as all generators tripped offline.”
According to the corporation, around 4:53pm Friday, the first set of customers began to receive power.
However, some areas experienced some delays.
“There were delays in the restoration process as due to safety and technical reasons a number of cables within the Blue Hills compound had to be isolated,” the statement said.
“This isolation restricted the amount of generators that could be put in service until all testing was completed.”
The corporation reported that by 10pm all of the services were restored.
BEC apologized for the inconveniences caused as a result of the outage.
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