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.

Castries, September 10, 2021 – Saint Lucia experienced a second island wide power outage in the space of a few hours.  The second outage occurred at 9:06 p.m. shortly after power had been restored across the island at 8:02 p.m.

Castries, May 26, 2015 – At 2:15 a.m. today the island experienced a total shutdown of the power system.

The shutdown was triggered by a fault on one of the generators at LUCELEC’s Cul De Sac power station leading to a subsequent overloading of the remaining generators resulting in the power system shutdown.

Initial indications are that some of the systems did not operate as designed resulting in the shutdown and some delay in the restoration of the system to its normal state.

Power was restored across the island at approximately 5:32 a.m.