{"id":9771,"date":"2022-03-14T12:15:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T16:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/?p=9771"},"modified":"2022-03-14T12:28:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T16:28:52","slug":"statement-on-island-wide-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/statement-on-island-wide-power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on Island-Wide Power Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9773\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9773 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LUCELEC-Chief-Engineer-Gilroy-Pultie-crop-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LUCELEC-Chief-Engineer-Gilroy-Pultie-crop-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LUCELEC-Chief-Engineer-Gilroy-Pultie-crop-1024x874.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LUCELEC-Chief-Engineer-Gilroy-Pultie-crop-768x656.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LUCELEC-Chief-Engineer-Gilroy-Pultie-crop.jpg 1156w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gilroy Pultie &#8211; LUCELEC Chief Engineer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At 5:31 a.m. on March 14, 2022, St. Lucia experienced an island wide power outage.<\/p>\n<p>The outage was caused by a cable fault at the Cul De Sac facility.\u00a0 The fault triggered the protection system, resulting in a total shutdown of the electricity system.<\/p>\n<p>Once the cable fault was isolated, power restoration started at around 6:41 a.m. and was completed at 7:31 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>LUCELEC is investigating why the protection system did not clear the fault without affecting the rest of the system.<\/p>\n<p>LUCELEC apologises to its customers for this unplanned outage and for the inconvenience caused.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"qtmplayer-playlist-large\">\n\t\t<ul class=\"qtmplayer-playlist\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"qtmplayer-trackitem qtmplayer-track-inpage\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/LUCELEC-Cul-de-Sac-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"cover\">\t\t<span \t\t\tdata-qtmplayer-cover=\"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/LUCELEC-Cul-de-Sac.jpeg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-qtmplayer-file=\"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Mr-Gilroy-Pultie-LUCELEC-Chief-Engineer-on-Power-Outage_Mar14.mp3\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-qtmplayer-title=\"Statement on Island-Wide Power Outage\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-qtmplayer-artist=\"Mr Gilroy Pultie\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-qtmplayer-link=\"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/statement-on-island-wide-power-outage\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-qtmplayer-icon=\"file_download\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-qtmplayer-type=\"track\"\n\t\t\t class=\"qtmplayer-play qtmplayer-link-sec qtmplayer-play-btn\"><i class='material-icons' aria-label=\"Play\">play_arrow<\/i><\/span>\n\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"qtmplayer-tit\">Statement on Island-Wide Power Outage<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"qtmplayer-art\">Mr Gilroy Pultie<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div>\t\t\t\n\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 5:31 a.m. on March 14, 2022, St. Lucia experienced an island wide power outage. 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