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Belco has admitted that there are “reliability” issues with its new power station following a series of recent power outages across the island. The electricity provider built a new $110 million power station and today a spokesman for the company ackn...

A plan to set up solar panels on the roof of two Government buildings in Hamilton has been submitted to the Department of Planning. It is proposed to install a total of 588 panels on the roof of the Government Administration Building and the neighbou...

More than 200 customers of Belco in central Pembroke and Hamilton are in darkness tonight after a power outage. The power cut, said to have begun around 10pm, affected customers in western Hamilton from Burnaby Street to Rosemont Avenue and extended ...

Thousands of homes across the island were hit by a power cut last night. But a spokesman for Belco said that electricity restored to all its affected customers by about 10pm. Wayne Caines, the firm’s president, apologised for the “unexpected” outage...

Plans to erect an $18 million solar farm in St George’s have been submitted to the Department of Planning. The application from IMG Holdings, received this week, proposed a 20-acre solar facility with about 20,000 solar cells installed on land to the...

One of the biggest solar panel installations at a school is to be installed at Warwick Academy. The school said the 274 high performance 330 watt panels will reduce its electricity bill by about 17 per cent – a saving of about $50,000 a year. Jane Vi...

Several hundred homes lost power this afternoon in the area of Fractious Street in Hamilton Parish. Belco’s outage site reported 821 customers in the dark as of 3pm. A Belco spokesman confirmed there was “an incident this afternoon involving a constr...

An initial report about an island-wide power outage last year has been submitted to electricity industry watchdogs. Denton Williams, the Regulatory Authority of Bermuda chief executive, said: “While we are in receipt of a preliminary report from Belc...

An investigation into an island-wide power cut last month is almost complete, power firm Belco said yesterday. A Belco spokesman said the report into the December 18 outage would be sent to industry watchdogs “in due course.” It is understood that th...

An equipment failure led to a “cascade” of failsafe shutdowns that cut off electricity to the entire island last week, power firm Belco announced today. Dennis Pimentel, the utility company’s president, said that the blackout remained under investiga...

More than 300 properties were without power this afternoon after a utility pole fault. A spokesman for power firm Belco said engineers had been sent to fix the problem in Southampton. Belco said in a tweet: “We're aware of an outage currently affecti...

A power cut that hit the island yesterday was an “anomaly”, the president of Belco’s parent company insisted. Wayne Caines said staff continued to investigate the cause of the outage, but a recurrence was not expected. Most customers had power resto...