BPL did not grow to meet increasing demand

Tue, Aug 13th 2019, 09:15 AM

 

As consumer demand for electricity on New Providence grew over the years, Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) never invested in increasing its generation capacity, BPL Chairman Dr. Donovan Moxey recently said.

“We have been disadvantaged by decades of nonalignment of strategic vision for the company and the needs of our growing customer base,” Moxey said during a press conference on Sunday.

“As more housing developments were being constructed, more resorts and other foreign direct investments were courted and constructed, as the economy and the population has continued to grow, there should have been concurrent investments in increasing generation capacity to sufficient levels that would ensure the company’s ability to meet growing demand and sufficient headroom to allow for redundancy.

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