Nassau, Bahamas -  (Wednesday, July 25,
2012) The Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) advises its customers in
New Providence that it has restored supply to all areas following an
island-wide outage on Wednesday, July 25, 2012. Just before 3:00 pm on
Wednesday, supply was restored to all areas in New Providence. BEC
advises that it experienced a fault at its Albany Substation at
approximately 12:27pm on Wednesday. The fault, which was caused by an
equipment malfunction, was responsible for a total system shutdown of
BEC's generation, transmission and distribution networks.

BEC officials were immediately able to locate the problem area and began
working to restore power within minutes. By 12:55 pm, the Corporation
began restoring...