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Belco has waived credit card fees to help customers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. A spokesman for the power company said that MasterCard, Visa and American Express would all be accepted. Dennis Pimentel, Belco’s president, added: “At Belco, we a...

BELCO has provided several options for customers to view and pay their bills without visiting the main office which will be closed to walk-ins as of Friday, April 3rd at 3.30 pm for the duration of Bermuda’s state of emergency. Customers can sign-u...

Belco’s new multimillion dollar North Power Station has powered up. The station went online at midnight on Tuesday after “many years of planning and construction”. Dennis Pimentel, Belco’s president, said: “The commissioning of the North Power Statio...

A big fall in restructuring charges helped Ascendant Group Limited, the parent company of Belco, achieve a 129 per cent improvement in its full year profit, reporting net income of $12.4 million, or $1.27 per share, for 2019. That was up on the $5.4 ...

Dear Sir, This month you published a letter from me wondering why the Bermuda Government had failed to give its consent to the 2019 offer from Algonquin to purchase the shares of Ascendant Group Limited — the owner and operator of Belco — after an al...

Belco has committed to keeping Bermuda’s electricity supply up and running during the Covid-19 crisis. Disconnections of residential and small commercial customers have been suspended for the next 30 days amid economic disruption caused by the Covid-...

Dear Sir, In August of last year, the shareholders of Ascendant Group Ltd overwhelmingly voted in favour of selling the company to Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp. The sale of Ascendant to Algonquin will have significant benefits to Bermuda, the f...

Plumes of smoke from Belco’s North Power Plant were caused by tests run on its new generators, the company said yesterday. A spokesman for Ascendant Group, the parent company of the electricity producer, said that tests had twice caused “brief discha...

A deadline for a decision on the change of control of Belco to Canada’s Algonquin Power and Utilities Corporation has been extended to October. The Regulatory Authority will issue a final decision on the change of control application. A Bermuda gover...

A blame game has broken out after local construction firms claimed they were unpaid for months of work on the new power plant deemed “essential” for Bermuda’s energy future. Three Bermudian contractors, who spoke this week with The Royal Gazette unde...

An elderly couple has asked neighbours to join a class-action lawsuit against Bermuda’s power company over the “monstrosity” across the road. Arthur and Sharon Riviere’s two-storey home on St John’s Road, Pembroke, their home since 1982, now looks on...

Festival of Lights, powered by The Bermuda Electric Light Company Ltd. (BELCO), and supported by the Department of Parks, raised $21,373.00 for WindReach this holiday season. Thousands of people visited the Botanical Gardens to experience the popular...