BRADES, Montserrat (CMC) — The Montserrat Utilities Limited (MUL) Friday said progress was being made in identifying the major problem with one of its faulty generators that has resulted in power outages on the small Caribbean island.

But MUL said that the discovery is not enough to signal that normal operations would be resumed soon.

“We have identified a serious fault that would have caused the earlier damage. Unfortunately, we don’t know if the repair will hold so we have to test it under pressure, before we can risk bringing the generator onto the grid. In the meantime MUL staff and representatives Caterpillar are carrying out further works to try and make sure we have not missed other items that still need to be repaired,” the utility company said in a statement.

MUL said it has had a series of requests to try and alternate the outages so that everybody is not always affected at the same time of day and as a result “some changes have been made to the schedule of outages”.

MUL said that it will provide a further update on Saturday and apologises for the inconvenience to residents and businesses on the volcano ravaged island.