BEC generator faults triggered outages

Tue, May 17th 2011, 04:03 AM

Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) General Manager Kevin Basden said yesterday that power outages that occurred across New Providence over the last few days were the result of generator faults.
Basden explained that outages on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday were caused by “generators tripping offline” and were exacerbated by the fact that one of BEC’s largest generators had been taken offline for servicing.
“These outages, for the most part, are directly related to challenges we have experienced with our generation network in New Providence,” Basden said at a press conference at the corporation’s headquarters.
“There were unforesee ...

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