-PM’s press conference hears
The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) recorded a total loss of 25 percent of power generated for 2024, a press conference convened by Prime Minister Mark Phillips heard yesterday.
Twelve percent of the loss is commercial meaning persons who are illegally connected to the grid and do not pay for the supply of power, while the technical loss refers to dissipation while power is being transmitted from generation to distribution.
This has been the level of losses for years and despite massive investment particularly in the transmission and distribution system, GPL has been unable to restrain the debilitating haemorrhaging of power. It has raised questions of what might happen when the proposed gas to energy plant comes on stream