Electricity

Nevis Citizens Paying Less For Electricity

Geothermal Energy To Lower Cost Of Electricity Charlestown, Nevis December 16, 2008 The Nevis Island Administration continued to put into action measures to advance the quality of life for the people of Nevis and has announced some good news for …

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St. Kitts Left In The Dark….Again

Needsmust Power Plant Generator Photo By Erasmus Williams Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis Novemeber 05, 2008 (CUOPM) A faulty isolator switch is responsible for Tuesday night’s island-wide power failure, while thousands of residents were watching of results of the United …

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Nevis Geothermal Power Editorial

March 26, 2008

The Editor
The Observer Newspaper
Government Road
Charlestown, Nevis

Dear Sir,

“Lets Avoid the Hype of Geothermal”

I have heard the oft repeated mantra by the NRP led Nevis Island Administration that the current exploration underway for geothermal energy will be the saviour for Nevis and that Nevis will become the supplier of electricity for St. Kitts, Anguilla, Saba, St. Maarten and as far away as the United States Virgin Islands. In a recent article in the Herald Newspaper in St. Maarten, the company now undertaking the exploration in Nevis, has raised expectations to astonishing degrees for the geothermal experiment.

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Nevis Electricity Company Asks For Customers Patience

Charlestown, Nevis
March 11, 2008
General Manager of the Nevis Electricity Company Ltd. (NEVLEC) Mr. Cartwright Farrell said the company’s pursuits of renewable energy in collaboration with the Nevis Island Administration were in keeping with international lending agencies’ directives and urged consumers to be patient with the existing fuel surcharge.
 
Mr. Farrell told the Department of Information on March 11. 2008, that the company had little choice but to continue with the existing fuel surcharge once it continued to use diesel generation. He said once renewable energy came on line in 2009, as expected, the fuel surcharge would be eliminated.
 
“At this moment if we subsidise diesel generation by reducing or capping or eliminating the fuel surcharge while using diesel generation, it is a subsidy that is not against the standards of the world. As it is, the world is asking for us to remove them to allow geothermal, wind, solar and hydro energy all these renewable energies, to be able to compete directly against the established coal fossil fuel and nuclear generation in the world. So that is just the way to go and NEVLEC is just following that path. It is one of the stipulations of the lending agencies [including the World Bank and the] Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) that we follow that path. It is a standard that is being set around the world and we just have to follow.

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