As New Providence’s energy crisis continues to wreak havoc on lives and businesses, Perspective followed up on power generation concerns on the islands of Bimini, Abaco and Grand Bahama to find out how service providers have managed challenges and how residents are coping with blackouts as they occur.

In May, a fire at Bahamas Power & Light’s (BPL) power station on Bimini caused an immediate island-wide outage that, though subsequently restored, has been followed with blackouts.

When questioned recently by Perspective on the status of power generation on Bimini, BPL Director of Public Relations Quincy Parker advised that “with the addition of four megawatts of power from rented Aggrekos, BPL Bimini has about 6.5 megawatts, with a present demand of 5.6 megawatts.”

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