A LEADING businessman said yesterday that while net metering and net billing would be a good idea to facilitate renewable energy, power plants were  still necessary during peak consumption hours.

"I think it would be good, it would provide another mechanism by which people can offset these substantial energy costs they have," Dionisio D'Aguilar, head of the Superwash laundromat chain and former Bahamas Chamber of Commerce president, said yesterday

"If you go out and put in an alternative energy plant, you should get credit for it by reducing your consumption, and whatever surplus you generate you sell it ba ...

By NATARIO McKENZIE
Tribune Business Reporter
nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net

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