Remember the Gas Turbine out at San Pedro that was supposed to have been operational from early June? Well it still isn't online, but the news tonight is that the plant has been successfully commissioned.

A please says it was successfully commissioned and load tested up to its rated capacity of 21 MW last week Thursday.

But, the gas turbine is still currently "unavailable to supply power into the grid because of the failure - for a second time - of one of the three transformers that is needed to connect it to the grid."

Yes, you heard it right - it failed for a second time. BEL explains that one of the transformers failed early on during the commissioning process- and finding a replacement proved time consuming. That didn't arrive until the first week of August, and it was commissioned in mid August. But the replacement transformer failed on this past Saturday.

It's still under warranty and now the company is working on finding and installing another replacement transformer. That should be finished by the end of the year.

By then the high season will already be in full swing which will cause power demand to soar, and today's release says "we continue to monitor the power demand in San Pedro and will implement our contingency plan to protect the single submarine cable interconnection to the island if necessary."