The police have since been called in to investigate the matter which the power company says had no reason to take place.
It appears, power officials say, the person or persons are knowledgeable about the equipment and the system.
The problem occurred at Sub-Station #6 just after 1:00 a. m. yesterday and affected some 5,000 customers, the majority of them in the eastern end of the island.
The outage was not isolated to East Grand Bahama, but a section of Lucaya and areas such as Downtown and the airport.
According to police, a team of officers visited the power company’s sub-station #6 at Fortune Bay Drive, where it was discovered that someone had tampered with the transformer to cause an overload in the system.
Power officials believe an artificial grounding system was put into the structure which affected the system and caused its plant on Cedar Street to go out.
However, crews at the power company were able to remedy the problem and electricity was restored to the downtown area in an hour and a half.
Customers in East Grand Bahama did not have their power restored until some five hours later.
The matter is still under active investigation by power and police officials.
By LEDEDRA MARCHE, Senior Freeport News Reporter
