Major Internal Fault Causes Island-Wide Electricity Blackout In St. Lucia

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, September 4, 2019 (CMC) – The St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC) confirmed, today, that the island had experienced a total shutdown, lasting nearly three hours.

In a statement, LUCELEC said that the outage had been caused by a major internal fault at one of its main power station, adding “the fault tripped all of the generators, resulting in a total system shutdown”.

“After the faulted zone was isolated, appropriate checks and inspections commenced, and the process of restoring the system was initiated,” LUCELUC said, explaining that power restoration was completed at nearly three hours, after the shutdown was experienced, at 12:37 a.m local time on Wednesday.

“LUCELEC is continuing to investigate the cause of the problem and to take necessary corrective action,” the company said in a statement, apologising to its customers “for this unplanned outage and for the inconvenience caused”.