-despite rebuff by parliament committee chair
Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Thursday convened a meeting of members of parliament, private sector representatives and executives of GPL to provide an update on the power supply.
A release yesterday from the Office of the Prime Minister stated that the meeting provided an opportunity for a comprehensive update by GPL’s executive management on the company’s current capacity and its short- to long-term measures for reliable energy supply.
GPL’s Acting Chief Executive Officer, Kesh Nandlall, explained that the number of customers grew from around 140,000 in 2008 to over 227,000 currently, with a total annual gross generation increasing from 600 million megawatt-hours (MWh) to 1.2 billion MWh and the peak demand growing from 73.5 megawatts (MW) to 186.4 for that period.