The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) today called for conservation of electricity in the wage of a big spike in demand linked to cooling needs because of increasingly high temperatures.
In an advertisement in today’s Stabroek News, GPL said that the company has recorded a peak demand of 182 megawatts (MW) compared to 154 MW for the corresponding period last year.
It said that the rise in temperature has led to the heightened use of air conditioning units and fans and in some instance these are left on in home and businesses that are unoccupied.
GPL noted that the situation was not unique to Guyana. It said that Trinidad and Tobago had registered its highest ever electricity consumption in August.