Saturday August 24, 2019

As Bahamas Power and Light Company Ltd. (BPL) continues the work to address the serious load shedding and grid strain issues that have disrupted the daily lives of many of our customers in New Providence, we are making steady progress. Progress towards closing the 40-megawatt deficit we face during peak energy consumption has picked up momentum thanks to the efforts of our team of local and international partners who have been working around the clock. Two units in particular are the focus of our efforts, due to the fact that when combined these two units – once they are up and running – can provide the needed power to make up the deficit. We remain hopeful we will be able to bring at least one of the two units online ahead of schedule. We were also able to deal with the problems that arose on the unit at Clifton Pier which had to be taken down on Thursday night. As per the past week, we will continue to update the public on our efforts each day. We would like to remind our public that with the return of the sunshine, the day and evening peaks have risen once again, which means we will be working extra hard to maintain the relief we have enjoyed from widespread load shedding over the past few days ....

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