An ex­plo­sion at a T&TEC sub­sta­tion along the East­ern Main Road in Port-of-Spain caused a black­out in the cap­i­tal on Tues­day night.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, a trans­former at the sub­sta­tion near the Port-of-Spain Ab­ba­toir ex­plod­ed just be­fore 7 pm.

This trig­gered is­land­wide pow­er dips across Trinidad and the elec­tric­i­ty sup­ply for cus­tomers sup­plied from the sub­sta­tion was in­ter­rupt­ed.

Sev­er­al parts of Port-of-Spain were thrown in­to dark­ness and the fire could be seen from miles away as fire­fight­ers and T&TEC of­fi­cials tried to ad­dress the prob­lem.

Ear­li­er in the day, an elec­tri­cal fire at the T&TEC Mas­ter Sub­sta­tion, lo­cat­ed along Park Av­enue in Port-of-Spain, near the Pow­er­Gen plant, al­so caused a black­out in the cap­i­tal be­tween 11.15 am and 1.15 pm. Fire­fight­ers from the Wright­son Road Fire Sta­tion re­spond­ed to that fire.

The fire was even­tu­al­ly brought un­der con­trol and pow­er was re­stored lat­er in the night.