An is­sue at the T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC)’s Scar­bor­ough Sub­sta­tion led to an is­land­wide pow­er out­age in To­ba­go.

Ac­cord­ing to the com­mis­sion, the is­sue led to the whole of To­ba­go los­ing its elec­tric­i­ty sup­ply on Wednes­day night. 

In a press re­lease is­sued yes­ter­day, T&TEC sought to ex­plain the is­sue which caused the mas­sive pow­er out­age around 10.21 pm on Wednes­day. 

It said: “Ini­tial find­ings in­di­cate that fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of main­te­nance work on a pow­er trans­former at Scar­bor­ough, a bus bar fault oc­curred at the sub­sta­tion, caus­ing a cas­cade of events which re­sult­ed in a loss of gen­er­a­tion at the Cove Pow­er Sta­tion and the is­land-wide out­age to To­ba­go.”

The com­mis­sion stat­ed that its staff be­gan restor­ing pow­er with­in 15 min­utes of the out­age and the en­tire is­land’s sup­ply was ful­ly re­stored by 12.45 am. 

“T&TEC ac­knowl­edges the in­con­ve­nience that cus­tomers ex­pe­ri­enced and apol­o­gis­es for this un­for­tu­nate in­ci­dent,” it said.