Saba gripped by four-hour island-wide power outage

An island-wide power outage affected Saba on Tues­day afternoon, plunging of­fices, stores and restaurants into darkness for more than four hours.

Residents reported that elec­tricity first went off around 1:15pm. The lights came back on several times over the next hour, but only for a few min­utes before going dark again. Between 2:00 and 6:00pm, generators were the only source of power in Saba’s four villages.

Saba Electric Company (SEC) restored power to The Bottom around 6:00pm, with the rest of the island com­ing back online over the next hour.

“The power disruption which occurred earlier this afternoon was due to a combination of factors including communica­tion issues between our solar park and power plant and configuring load balancing with equipment at our power plant,” SEC said in a Face-book post on Tuesday night.

The government-owned company apologised for any inconvenience caused by the prolonged outage.

“We consistently appreciate the understanding and coop­eration of the public during these unexpected events,” SEC said.

The Daily Herald.