B.E.L. Says it Will Be Able to Meet 2025’s Power Supply Demands

This year, Belize Electricity Limited (B.E.L) faced a lot of heat over the dreaded “load-shedding” – those planned outages when the power supply can’t keep up with demand. But today, B.E.L held a media session to shed some light on their efforts to boost capacity. Emmanuel Pech, B.E.L’s Senior Corporate Communications Officer, shared that one of their big moves is swapping out street lights for energy-efficient LED ones. He assured everyone that the company is taking steps to ensure they can meet the power demands by 2025. 

 

Emmanuel Pech, Senior Corporate Communications Office, B.E.L.

“We know that energy has been a topic, uh, a heated topic in the media recently, particularly because of the year that we’ve had with all the challenges. But we want to reiterate that we remain optimistic  that we will be able to meet our customers energy needs  into 2025. Of course, 2025 won’t be without its challenges.”

 

Marion Ali

“What makes feel sure that what you have acquired or can acquire secure will meet 2025 demands?”

 

Emmanuel Pech

“Well, again, refer back to the presentation. As you may have heard, we are in a much better position today. We have improved by thirty-three percent our in country capacity, and we continue to implement different initiatives. To on the demand side management of things as you may have heard one of the projects we’re working on is the replacement off streetlights countrywide. To L. E. D. And that will that was just one example of the initiatives that we’re doing on the man’s side management. The other aspect of it is informing our customers with your help as well. of the media to, we had an energy management activity that you guys were able to participate in and could have acknowledged how. Different small initiatives that small acts at home or the office can create a big impact in reducing your overall demand. So it’s a combination of many things. BL has its plan. We are doing our part.”