The acute energy crisis of May and early June may have subsided somewhat, but 40 plus million dollars later, and San Pedro still does not have power from the long promised, much delayed mobile gas turbine facility. A major installation is in place - but getting everything to work has been a challenge.
BEL confirms that there have been delays after a transformer blew and the turning is now expected to be online and operational at the end of this month. The replacement transformer was scheduled to have arrived in country today.
San Pedro's tourism interests are hoping it's online in time for the high season after the extended outages in May and June caused a number of trip cancellations.
San Pedro is powered by a single 25 year old submarine cable with a 17.4 megawatt capacity - which the island's consumption regularly exceeds.
