Government promotes solar panels to reduce national electrical demand on BEC

Mon, Jul 4th 2011, 01:24 PM

sm-Installing-energy-efficiency-to-home.jpg Nassau, The Bahamas - Blackouts resulting from electrical load shedding has Bahamians taking the solutions provided in the National Energy Policy seriously. The residual effect of global climate change is teaching Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) employees a hands-on lesson about why Bahamians are being encouraged to buy solar photovoltaic panels. "The majority or the largest consumer of petroleum products in The Bahamas is BEC ... our electrical companies. And so we want to reduce the demand on them. About 40 percent of the energy they produce are primarily to households for residential use," said Phenton Neymour, Minister of State for the Environment...

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