The government had made such a big deal about the closing down of the Marsa power station, but what should have been a complex that would have never been used again has now been forced back into operation, as can be seen in photo above.

The Marsa power station is partly back in use in support of an energy supply sector that was hit hard with the damage caused to the interconnector between Malta and Sicily.

Enemalta last week said that the Marsa power station would be needed in order to maintain power supply. Malta has experienced a series of power cuts over the past weeks, two of which were nationwide.

After the last one, it emerged that the interconnector with Sicily the mainstay of our energy, as the Delimara plant – built with so much fanfare and much-vaunted by the Labour government – cannot be relied on in full.

The Marsa power station had been closed in March 2017 – “once and for all”, the government had said at the time. Now it is partly back in operation.

The power station was switched off in March 2015 and was put on cold standby. It was later fully switched off, we were told in 2017.

Those words are coming back to haunt the government, as the Marsa power station is in use once again, even though only in part.