Utility company, GPL’s power loss remains just over 29% of electricity generated.
The figures were provided by the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) at a press conference hosted on Thursday by the Ministry of Public Infrastructure.
The losses come despite years of expenditure to bring technical and commercial losses down to around 10%.
According to information provided by GPL at the forum, the total loss for 2014 was 29.6 per cent while last year it was marginally lower at 29.09%.
Technical losses in 2014 amounted to 14% while last year the figure rose slightly to 14.6%.
Commercial losses -theft of electricity – totalled 15.6% in 2014 and 14.5% last year. Generating capacity totalled 135.15 mw in 2014 while the corresponding figure for last year was 137.75 mw. Peak demand was 119 mw in 2014 and 117.8 last year.
Under the Power Utility Upgrade Programme, the European Union and the the Inter-American Development Bank are sinking money into reducing the power loss and other areas. High loss of power has been a recurring problem here.
