The Trnidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion is now in the process of set­ting up a com­mit­tee to in­ves­ti­gate what led to the na­tion­wide black­out in To­ba­go on Fri­day.

The is­land-wide pow­er out­age oc­curred at about 5:30 pm.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia, Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Man­ag­er at T&TEC Annabelle Bras­nell said elec­tric­i­ty has been re­stored.

“Our first pri­or­i­ty was to put cus­tomers back on sup­ply last night (Fri­day) which we did suc­cess­ful­ly with­in a few hours.

She ex­plained that the prob­lem orig­i­nat­ed at Cove (Cove Eco-In­dus­tri­al and Busi­ness Park) when the alarm went off and the ma­chines went down. The cause of that, how­ev­er, is not known.

She said this was why the util­i­ty has ini­ti­at­ed a probe.

“We did say that a com­mit­tee would be con­sti­tut­ed to in­ves­ti­gate the cause of the alarm go­ing off and the ma­chines go­ing down right af­ter the alarm. That com­mit­tee has not been ful­ly con­sti­tut­ed as yet but as soon as I have the in­for­ma­tion about that I would be able to share it.”

Mean­while, Pres­i­dent of the To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion Chris James said the out­age neg­a­tive­ly af­fect­ed tourists on the is­land. He said in some cas­es it last­ed as long as three hours.

“As you can imag­ine, guests in the ho­tels do not ex­pect to suf­fer,” he added.

He said they thought that the is­sues at Cove were al­ready solved but in the past six months there have been nu­mer­ous out­ages.

“I think there should be a re­port in­to what hap­pened at Cove. We need to un­der­stand where we stand with Cove to get to the bot­tom of these out­ages.

He said “it’s a bit of a kick in the back­side” to have this hap­pen now af­ter Trop­i­cal Storm Karen has al­ready passed and the is­land has set­tled.