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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Barbados to grant licences to independent electricity producers

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BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos,– The Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ment says in­de­pen­dent pow­er pro­duc­ers in­ter­est­ed in sup­ply­ing elec­tric­i­ty to the na­tion­al grid will be able to ap­ply for li­cences by ear­ly next year.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dar­cy Boyce said that rec­om­men­da­tions on li­cens­ing sys­tems for these pro­duc­ers should be in hand by the end of the year and that pro­pos­als for pric­ing of re­new­able en­er­gy would al­so go be­fore the Fair Trad­ing Com­mis­sion ear­ly next year.

“We can give cer­tain­ty to in­vestors of what they will earn,” he said, adding that the rec­om­men­da­tions on pric­ing will be made af­ter stake­hold­er con­sul­ta­tions.

Boyce was speak­ing at a sign­ing cer­e­mo­ny be­tween the Di­vi­sion of En­er­gy and En­er­max Lim­it­ed to fa­cil­i­tate the in­stal­la­tion of so­lar pho­to­volta­ic sys­tems at 28 com­mu­ni­ty cen­tres and nine poly­clin­ics.

The project, which will be im­ple­ment­ed over the next three months, forms part of the Dis­as­ter Risk and En­er­gy Ac­cess Man­age­ment (DREAM) Project fund­ed by the Glob­al En­vi­ron­men­tal Fa­cil­i­ty (GEF) with project sup­port from the Unit­ed Na­tions De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme (UNDP).

Its pri­ma­ry ob­jec­tives are to re­duce green­house gas emis­sions through the use of re­new­able en­er­gy and to strength­en Bar­ba­dos’ dis­as­ter risk re­sponse by pro­mot­ing de­cen­tralised pho­to­volta­ic elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­a­tion with bat­tery back-up.

Boyce said that even­tu­al­ly he would like to see all com­mu­ni­ty cen­tres, poly­clin­ics, the Queen Eliz­a­beth Hos­pi­tal and all schools with re­new­able en­er­gy sys­tems.

He said this would re­sult in a re­duc­tion in elec­tric­i­ty costs, pro­vide crit­i­cal bat­tery sup­port when there were out­ages and en­sure that com­mu­ni­ties and schools were not im­pact­ed in car­ry­ing out their pro­grammes be­cause of high elec­tric­i­ty bills. (CMC)


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