System surge! Sections of territory affected by power outage
Sections of the territory are currently being affected by a widespread power outage.
There have been reports of power outages in communities across Tortola, including Pockwood Pond, Long Swamp, Greenland, and other areas on both the eastern and western ends of the main island.
Fischer’s Cove in Virgin Gorda was also reportedly affected.
The BVI Electricity Corporation (BVIEC) said in a public notice today that there was a surge on its system at approximately 10 am this morning, May 28. The surge caused two engines and a few feeders to trip.
“We are currently investigating the matter to determine the root cause of the surge,” the BVIEC stated.
BVI News understands that power was restored to Pockwood Pond at approximately 11 am today. It is not clear what areas are still affected at this time.
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Has the demand out grown the supply potentiality?
Many are asking that qestion. And if so, will there be resources, brains and will to expand the generating potential?
Questions like these should have been discussed and contingencies made a long time ago.
Ask yourself if the BVI govt has ever had an energy policy, let alone a reasonable one. You surely remember the debacle of the Rolls Royce generators purchased past their end of service life because it seemed like a good deal but were never fully operational.
Then we got newer generators that were not properly managed (preventive maintenance is of little relevance) so frequent breakdowns.
We have an aged distribution network that we are told cannot handle net metering, so we are discouraged from solar (which last I checked has 25% import duties). And, it is unlawful for most BVI homes to not be connected to BVIEC. We also now have a lot more people living here. Many prefer a/c as indeed does practically every store.
Has anyone even attempted to analyze present and projected future energy needs for the Territory, and come up with a game plan? Until we do, it’ll be the same old same old. The lesson about proper planning preventing poor performance has been forgotten, alas.
Please stop make up stories. Go ask questions or better yet when they have consumers day go take a pass. The last sets the company bought were very good sets. And since the passing of the last hurricane the whole Transmission line was basically re builded. The problem with the system is the system is over loaded continuously and with the place so hot going even cause more problems with over load running sets. Because the older smaller sets have basically did there time and parts at times are hard to source, so the newer sets are ask to running continuously at full load. Any mishap going to cause issues. At present one of the newer large set is out of service.
Solar energy is a hoax sold by big countries to prevent African countries from going nuclear power plant, and gain the ability to have nuclear bombs, solar power as stated is either passive or powered, the grid tie solar system does nothing for you but stabilize the BVIEC system during transient or lightening strike, the powered one you got to be rich to buy those batteries and maintain that system, technicians fees will murder you, so you got to become proficient in electrical, not to say it won’t help, but on short term basis and not the life span of your service with Bviec because those system are fragile electronics.
I HOPE AYO USE THE SAME ENERGY USED ON THE MUSICFEST VENUE TO RESTORE POWER
I remember after the Storm speaking to experienced electrical engineers from England and Barbados who explained to me what needed to be done; but we didn’t bother.
We rejected the funding guarantees from the UK that would have allowed the work, because they came with accountability and quality control requirements. The BVI rejected these terms.
That’s why, despite the billions of government revenue since the 1980s, we are still third world and need to import nearly all our skilled workers. What a shame
The BVI Customs Caps System. It keeps going down every minuite.This system is vital for clearing goods into the territory and this brings in revenue for the country.Its very fustrating now.I know this is not the headline for it but somebody has to get this message.
SUCKS – like every fricking thing run by Govt. The most important revenue source for th Govt – cargo is backing up and merchants can’t get their stuff. It’s been going on for weeks.
Single speed fans reving up and down shows irregular voltage in the supply taking years off the life of everyone’s electrical goods.
Those solar powered fantasy is a hoax. The big countries pushing it in Africa because they don’t want them to turn to nuclear power plant like them and gain the ability to have nuclear weapons, and American company benefits. There is either grid tie or powered solar system consisting of batteries that you cannot afford to keep up with and expensive technician maintenance fees you won’t afford, and grid tie only benifit the BVIEC because it stabilize their generation capacity during transient, the battery powered solar system you won’t be able to run that for not even a quarter of the life time you would have had service from Bviec, do you see the size of wind turbines that is on that island across virgin Gorda? And they don’t produce a 100% capacity be cause wind speed varies, and he is a billionaire so he went for an overkill and has not benifit a 100% , it’s good but it’s expensive, you need a loan for that which may be higher in repayment than your monthly Bviec bills, and fragile electronics won’t last that long.