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September 26, 2011
Grand Bahama Power Company to Host Customer Informational Evening Tonight

The Grand Bahama Power Company (GBPC) announced today that it will host a Customer Information Evening on Monday, September 26th. This is in addition to extending customer service hours into the evenings for the past week. The Customer Information Evening is planned for Monday September 26th, at the Christ the King Church Hall from 5-8pm.

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News Article
September 22, 2011
Grand Bahama Power Company to host Customer Informational Evening

The Grand Bahama Power Company (GBPC) announced today that it will host a Customer Information Evening on Monday, September 26th. This is in addition to extending customer service hours into the evenings for the past week. The Customer Information Evening is planned for Monday September 26th, at the Christ the King Church Hall from 5-8pm.

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News Article
August 29, 2011
GB Power Statement on Monday Morning Outage

The Grand Bahama Power Company wishes to advise the public that as a result of a lightning strike that damaged one of the main feeder lines that services our generation facility, customers experienced an island wide loss of power this morning at approximately 2:30am.

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News Article
August 29, 2011
August 29th Interruption in Grand Bahama Power Explained

The Grand Bahama Power Company wishes to advise the public that as a result of a lightning strike that damaged one of the main feeder lines that services our generation facility, customers experienced an island wide loss of power this morning at approximately 2:30am. GBPC crews were immediately deployed to assess the damage and to begin restoration efforts.

At approximately 6:30am we had restor...

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News Article
August 28, 2011
Grand Bahama Power Restoration Efforts On-going

CEO of Grand Bahama Power Company, Sarah MacDonald who was running the Command Centre, both during and following Hurricane Irene updated media while in the field checking progress on West End restoration efforts Saturday morning.

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August 23, 2011
GB Power Statement on Hurricane Irene

Grand Bahama Power Company wishes to advise our customers that we have enacted our Emergency Response Plan in preparation for Hurricane Irene and the company is in a state of readiness. The safety of our employees and customers are our number one priority as we prepare for the oncoming storm and urge or customers to remain focused on ensuring they are well prepared and have taken the necessary pr...

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News Article
August 17, 2011
GB Power Company responds to GBPA audit of billing procedures

Freeport, Grand Bahama Island - Grand Bahama Power Company understands the decision of our regulators, GBPA, to conduct an audit of our billing procedures and fuel surcharge costs. We recognize that recent fuel costs have been higher than usual. This is attributed to the increased cost in world market oil prices and our increased fuel usage due to our higher than normal use of the rental units.

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August 17, 2011
GBPA to Launch Independent Audit on GB Power Company

The Grand Bahama Port Authority, Limited (GBPA) is aware of the public's concern regarding the spike that consumers have been experiencing in power bills in recent months. GBPA has sought and received explanations from the Grand Bahama Power Company as to the seemingly unprecedented increase in electricity billing.

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News Article
July 22, 2011
GB Power Co. Not Leaving Customers In The Dark

The Grand Bahama Power Company (GBPC) is enhancing its customer service by enabling residents on the island to keep track of operations in a more efficient manner.

According to GBPC Corporate Communications Officer Philcher Grant-Farquharson there are a variety of methods that consumers can use to keep up with the activity involving GBPC, methods which will prove to be beneficial especially dur...

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News Article
June 29, 2011
Grand Bahama Power Company Employees Rescue baby Mocking Bird

Freeport, Bahamas - During a routine onsite check of tools in preparation
for a job assignment, GBPC linesmen Keith Knowles and Arthur Spenser
discovered a baby Northern American Mocking bird nesting inside a piece
of equipment called a tension machine. They were getting ready to transport the machine to a job location, when an examination of the equipment revealed the distraught baby bird.
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