NewsLucelec Investigates Island-Wide Power Outage

Yesterday, September 10th, Saint Lucia experienced an island-wide power outage. Lucelec said that the outage was caused by a protection fault at the generating plant at Cal De Sac. This fault tripped all of the generators which resulted in a complete shutdown of the electricity system.

After troubleshooting this grave situation, power was restored by 8:02 pm. Lucelec continued to investigate the cause of the problem but unfortunately the island experienced a second island-wide power outage.

Lucelec released a statement following this second island wide power-outage.

The statement is as follows: