B.E.L. Says Customers Should Also Conserve Energy

According to Sampson-Nunez, customers also have an important role to play in conserve energy.  The General Manager for Employee and Corporate Services says that energy conservation will reduce the likelihood of load shedding.

 

Dawn Sampson-Nunez, General Manager, B.E.L.

“The more greater the effort is to conserve energy then the less likely it is for load shedding, or at least to the areas that can be or that would be affected, would be smaller areas.”

 

Karique Marin, Manager, B.E.L.

“From the current time, from now to June fifteenth, what we’re looking at is trying to manage the varying independent power producers across the country to ensure that we can serve as much customer as possible.  What we are doing is to try to minimize the load shedding.  We are working with our large customers to ask them to provide support, so they would go on generators so that we minimize the load shedding, do not have as much load shedding during that period.  Our aim, of course, is to supply every customer, all times throughout the day; however, as the generators across the country experience issues, we do, from time to time, have to have these load shedding.  Our plan, of course, is to work with all customers, try to get our gas turbine in San Pedro on line which is currently projected for June fifteenth.  Once that comes on line, it gives us an additional twenty megawatts, a little bit of breathing space; however, the hydroelectric dams are reducing their output.”