Tropical Storm Chantal caused no major problems with the electricity infrastructure.

St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC) is reporting that the power system fared very well throughout the storm.  There was no damage to infrastructure and the majority of customers had electricity throughout the storm.

In the north there were some isolated incidents of power fluctuations in some areas, small areas being without power, some reports of branches falling on lines and taking these lines to the ground, and two cases of meters being pulled off their mountings. 

On Tuesday July 9, St Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC) employee Malaika Chester will challenge nine others for the title of Inter-commercial Calypso Monarch 2013. Miss Chester is employed in the LUCELEC Generation Department; she won the title in 2011. 

Miss Chester who goes by the stage name “Miss Kitty” will compete with “Missing You,” a calypso written by Jon “Buffalo” Odlum. It is a description of old Saint Lucian values and an appeal for their return.  

For the first half of 2013 LUCELEC customers paid less per unit of electricity than they did last year.  So says LUCELEC Corporate Communications Manager Roger Joseph.

The reduced rate is due to a drop in the fuel surcharge applied to every unit of electricity sold.  Joseph says since February the fuel surcharge has been negative resulting in a tariff reduction for customers.