Statement on Island-Wide Power Outage

Castries, March 07, 2026 – At 5:00 p.m. on March 06, 2026, Saint Lucia experienced an island wide power outage.

The outage was caused by the unexpected operation of a  protection system at LUCELEC’s Cul De Sac plant and resulted in a total shutdown of the electricity system.

Following investigations, power restoration commenced at 5:50 p.m. with supply progressively returning across the island. Restoration was completed at 9:10 p.m.

LUCELEC has initiated a detailed review of the event as part of its standard post-incident process.

LUCELEC apologises to its valued customers for this unplanned island-wide outage and for the inconvenience caused.  

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