Bahamas 'could get rid of BEC" in 10 years'

Tue, Aug 3rd 2010, 12:00 AM

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

The Bahamas "could actually get rid of the Bahamas Electricity Corporation" in 10 years if it fully committed to financing and installing renewable energy throughout this nation, executives from a leading company in the field said yesterday, with this country "virgin territory that is significantly behind many other Caribbean countries".

Speaking after signing a $305,964 contract with the Government to supply and install solar water heaters and solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in several Bahamian homes, senior officials from Alternative Power Sources (APS), which has operations in Jamaica and Bermuda besides this nation, urged the Ba ...

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