Mauritius Seeks to Boost Power Supply and Warns Cuts Are a Risk

Mauritius is exploring temporary measures to increase electricity supply and warns that it may have to impose scheduled power cuts in coming months if these measures fall short.

“From now till end of December or January next year, we have, by hook or by crook, to add 100 megawatts to our network,” Energy and Public Utilities Minister Patrick Assirvaden said on Wednesday. Otherwise, he said, the country will need to implement rotating power outages to avoid a possible collapse of the national grid.