And last night load shedding was implemented - meaning the lights were cut out to certain communities because BEL simply did not have enough power to keep everybody's lights on.
So there were Emergency power outages to portions of the Corozal, Belize, Stann Creek and Cayo Districts, and San Pedro, Ambergris Caye.
This happened after Mexico's CFE told. BEL that it could not supply them power for last night - due to high demand in Mexico.
Moreno explained:
Jose Moreno, General Manager, Transmission and Energy Supply - BEL
"Last night, basically, we had one of those days where they call us and they tell us we need to curtail your supply. And you guys, so that you guys need to zero the transfer of power at the interconnection point, right?"
"When that happened, we had to bring up all the generation that was available. And that was not enough, so that we could zero. So, thereafter, we had to do some load shedding. We opened a few of our distribution feeders in order for us to be able to meet that requirement."
"Now, what is happening to us nowadays is, you know, it's something that we foresaw happening, and we took action. I think we went ahead and purchased another gas turbine, and we have deployed that to San Pedro."
"However, that project is still not commissioned. It is expected to be commissioned by the end of May."
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