CEO of the Guyana Power and Light Bharat Dindyal said that the need for an additional 26 megawatts of power is a two-fold one, having its genesis in the failure of another older Wartsila unit at Garden of Eden and the delay in the completion in the frequency conversion exercises, which would see other units being taken out of commission temporarily.
The company will make a purchase of a new power plant comprising three Wartsila 8.7 megawatt units which will be installed at Vreed-en-Hoop, next to a new sub-station being built there as part of the Chinese-financed transmission