| And while fans of Chetumal worry about that city - tonight Belizeans are worried if their power supply will hold up.
As predicted, BEL has been plunged into an energy crisis - with not enough power to supply Belize's energy needs - especially at peak hours, like night times.
The problem is the Westlake Generator is being upgraded - leaving BEL with insufficient power.
So, what will happen tonight - and will you be next in line for a blackout? The company had a press conference this evening to discuss:
Jose Moreno, General Manager, Transmission and Energy Supply - BEL
"This evening, if CFE curtails us again, we will have to rotate some outages. We will have to affect some feeders, given that the demand today was as high as it is, as it was yesterday. So we will have to rotate a few outages for the time during that peak time, because normally it happens at the time that CFE also goes through the peak."
"And normally that is between 7 and 10 o'clock at night. The reason why we load shed is because we come up with a situation where we cannot meet the demand. And that happens only if Mexico tells us, listen, I have a situation in my system, I need you to back off. I need you to curtail the supply. Until then, we don't know. We cannot go ahead and forecast and put advisories out there if things are not going to happen. And that's why the advisories that we have been sending out to our customers as general, just telling them, listen, we are in this precarious situation. We might need you to come off or we might have to take out the feeder in your area out of service. Now, last night we did mostly feeders in Belmopan, in San Ignacio. We had two feeders out in San Ignacio, We had the rural Belize feeder. And one feeder in San Pedro, feeder four. That is the southern part of the island. If we need to today, we don't expect to touch those feeders again."
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