The Minister of Transport and Energy, the Hon. Jobeth Coleby-Davis,  Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources, the Hon. Jomo Campbell and Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Works and Family Island Affairs, the Hon. Bacchus Rolle along with officials of the Bahamas Power and Light recently visited the Potter’s Cay Dock to inspect the  infrastructure installed to provide electricity to vendors in the area.

President of the Potter’s Cay Fish, Fruit & Vegetable Vendors Association, Ormanique Bowe, who was also part of the touring delegation, shared her excitement with reporters.  She said,  “we wanted this long time and now it’s here and I’m sure that my vendors will embrace the opportunity.  Most of them have already the mechanism in for electricity so most of us have electrical supplies in place, meter boxes in place just ready for them to come and run the spiders.  We had a transformer here for quite some time, it’s been eight years it’s been locked up in there, I’m surprised it still looked brand new.  So we’re ready to go.  We’re ready for electricity. We don’t have to buy ice no more.  We can put icemakers in our stalls.  We don’t have to pay $60-$70 per night to run generators.”

Chairman of Bahamas, Power & Light, Christina Alston spoke to the sustainability of power at Potter’s Cay.  “One of the things that we’re excited about is when you have a historic site it already has a framework, it already has a rhythm and an infrastructure that it has to deal with.  And in this case what were going to be able to do, once we get this up and going, is come back and figure out new and innovative ways to take it off the grid to provide energy in a way that other Bahamians can come down here, when they come and have a meal, they’ll be able to actually see a micro grid and how it actually works,” Alston said.