BEC’s main Clifton Pier Power Station suffered a forced outage rate that was two-three times’ the international industry average between 2007-2009, a report by German-based consultants Fichtner, part of an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) supported initiative to strengthen the Bahamian energy sector.
The report warned that BEC’s focus on the short-term, rather than medium and long-term planning, was leading to “costly solutions” that would ultimately only increase the burden placed on its 100,000 business and residential customers.
The report found: “BEC is in a situation where systematic medium-to-long term planning is replaced by very short-term, ad-hoc decisions.”
