San Pedro hit with 4 hour blackout
While one utility was being granted a rate hike, another was struggling to provide service to one of its biggest customers. At eight twenty-five this morning the entire island of Ambergris Caye lost its electricity supply and power was not restored until over four hours later. According to a press release from Belize Electricity Limited, the blackout was caused when corrosion on system protection cables caused a fault on the high power transformer at the San Pedro substation. B.E.L. says it is in the process of reviewing its policy of preventive maintenance to prevent a similar problem in the future.
