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Former electricity minister, David Patterson on Friday assailed the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration for wasting US$426 million on renting two electricity supply ships over the next two years instead of buying new generators for the state-owned Guyana Power and Light (GPL), Inc. He reminded that A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) administration had purchased 46 megawatts ...

The Guyana government is finalising a deal with a Turkish company to rent a 36 megawatt barge, in an effort to satisfy peak electricity demand at a time when several generators are giving trouble, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday. Peak electricity demand in the Demerara-Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) is just over 170 megawatts but existing generators are pushing just ...