A RECENT fire at Bahamas Power and Light’s Clifton Pier Plant has had no bearing on ongoing load shedding in New Providence.

According to BPL’s CEO Whitney Heastie, it was a minor incident with engine D8 13 that was rectified, with the unit put back online three hours later. The fire broke out on Friday and was reported at 11.49pm. Mr Heastie said: “We did have an issue on D8 13. They were switching D8 13 over to diesel from heavy fuel oil to bring the unit down and so when they had switched over, obviously diesel being lighter than heavy fuel oil, the gasket did not hold tight and it started to leak right on the manifold that was hot.

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