B.E.L. will resume electricity connections

There is breaking news from the Belize Electricity Limited and that is that late this evening the utility company announced that it had reached agreement with the Public Utilities Commission over installation of new electricity lines which will positively impact consumers. According to a release from B.E.L., it has received assurances from the P.U.C. that B.E.L. would not be penalized for exceeding the limit imposed on capital investments. B.E.L. has maintained the P.U.C. had limited its investment to twenty-five million dollars per year so that with the agreement reached today, B.E.L. will resume installations of electricity services countrywide. The backlog of pending requests which average fifteen a day will be cleared up for residential, commercial and line extensions with immediate effect.