Update 7:10pm 15 Oct.: Following island-wide power outages Sunday evening, CUC has confirmed that its team extinguished a small electrical fire at its North Sound Plant.
More than 16,000 CUC customers were left in the dark when outages began shortly before 5pm.
As at 7:10pm, only two outages remained on the CUC outage map.
In a statement Sunday night, CUC said the damage at its plant was limited to a control panel in the control room of one of the engine rooms.
“Emergency and Fire Services were dispatched, but the fire was already extinguished. The Company is grateful that there were no injuries to the CUC team and is currently assessing the damage and working to make repairs,” the statement said.
It added that the CUC team is “working expeditiously” to restore power to all customers, with some already having been restored.
CUC said it will keep the public updated on its progress as this situation continues.
Updates can be view on the CUC outage map.
Update 6:40pm 15 Oct.: Power has been restored to a number of communities across Grand Cayman as CUC crews have dwindled outages to 13 Sunday evening, down from as many as 174.
However, a little over 11,000 customers still remain without power.
According to the CUC outage map, some communities in Bodden Town, George Town, including the Seven Mile Beach stretch, and West Bay remain without electricity.
There is no official word from CUC on when full power will be restored.
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More than 16,000 CUC customers on Grand Cayman were left without power shortly after 5pm Sunday following island wide outages.
According to CUC’s map 174 outages have been logged across its grid stretching from West Bay to East End.
Jessica Pawlik, CUC’s Manager of External Communications, told the Cayman Compass Sunday afternoon that the company is aware of a number of outages across Grand Cayman and “crews have been dispatched” to work on restoring power.
Pawlik said she could not confirm the cause of the outages at this time or when power would be restored.
However the Compass understands that Fire Services were dispatched to CUC’s power generation facility in George Town after smoke was reportedly seen issuing from a panel in the control room.
Pawlik has advised the community to check the CUC outage map on its website for updates on power restoration in their area.
The map shows outages starting shortly before 5pm and quickly spreading through the grid.
Check back for updates on this developing story.
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