Guernsey Electricity managing director Ian Watson, left, shows the UK Government’s Minister of State for Energy Malcolm Wicks around the power station. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0599838)

POWER was lost to each islander for an average of 37 minutes in 2007.
In the UK, the average was 100 minutes.
Of 21,000 events covered under Guernsey Electricity’s guaranteed service standards, it missed the required performance on just five occasions in 2006/7.
More than a third of the supply time lost was the result of just two incidents, the first at Cobo and the other at Admiral Park.
The latter of these was caused by damage to an underground power cable by another contractor.
Managing director Ian Watson said that illustrated the difficulty that local utility companies faced.
He said customer service and reliability were key priorities for the company.