Recent blackouts have underlined how this government – like its predecessors – has signally failed to deliver a reliable, stable electricity supply. The promises have been endless but the reality has been that it just can’t deliver. No matter the additional generation it has procured and with more on the way it is still to master the shortcomings of the transmission and distribution system which has been the bane of all administrations over the last 40 years.
It has been compounded by a hodgepodge of works funded with large loans and credits primarily from the IDB and China’s Export-Import Bank. Yet the power system remains brittle and the the only people smiling at the moment are the middlemen and the suppliers of the generators from Honduras and the power ships. There is a lot of money to be made off of this government which continues to shamelessly invest in Heavy Fuel Oil generators despite the absolute need for green fuels.
