CUC warns rising heat could cause power cuts
(CNS): Grand Cayman’s sole power supplier, CUC, has issued a statement warning that its shrinking reserve margin means customers could soon see rolling power outages as the mercury climbs this summer. Growing demand driven by already record high temperatures, economic growth and delays in OfReg’s bid for new generating capacity for the grid means that CUC will need to shed load.
With the heatwave expected to continue, CUC’s current generation reserve margin is lower than normal, which increases the risk of the power provider having to shed customer load as air-conditioning systems have to work harder.
The reserve margin is the difference between the total installed electricity generation capacity and peak customer electricity demand. CUC said the reserve margin is shrinking due to rapidly increasing electricity demand driven by economic growth, record-high temperatures and delays in adding new generating capacity to the grid.
Peak electricity demand on Grand Cayman grew by 9% from 2022 to 2023 and is still growing. CUC last installed significant additional generation capacity in 2016, with a smaller addition in 2022. All generation capacity installations require approval from the regulator, OfReg. In 2019, CUC predicted increased consumer demand and proposed a 13-megawatt solar plus storage project as a clean energy option.
OfReg did not approve the proposal pending the initiation of a competitive bid for such a project. However, the regulator has still not opened an official bid, even though CUC warned in 2021 that it was facing increasing consumer demand that it would not be able to meet.
CUC has been depending on leased 10MW mobile generators as it can no longer commission new diesel permanent generators, given the need to reduce Cayman’s carbon footprint and its long dependency on fossil fuels.
Its customer-owned solar programmes have added only 16.8MW to the grid since 2021, only a tiny percentage of the power generated every day. The company has invited access to the grid for rooftop solar producers in a piecemeal fashion but claims that taking on more solar power from domestic sources risks destabilising the grid.
The peak loads the power company is currently juggling occur in the evening and cannot be served by solar power without the use of battery storage. However, its 20MW Battery Energy Storage System is expected to be commissioned in June, which will help meet the evening peak demand.
But it appears this may not be enough as government’s failure to properly plan for the transition to green energy has created this critical situation.
CUC said its maintenance teams are working very hard to keep all of its generating units online, but when customer demand is higher than available generating capacity, it will need to conduct rotating customer outages or load shedding. When it becomes necessary, the schedules will be published “as far in advance as possible”, with key updates provided through the CUC social media pages, press releases and radio announcements.
If load shedding is necessary, it will be for periods limited to thirty minutes to one hour within a 24-hour period. However, it will be more common during peak hours, which on Grand Cayman is typically between 4:30pm and 8:00pm, though in the summer this can occur as early as 3:00pm.
Customers can keep up to date on power restoration by checking the Outage Viewer on CUC’s website and social media channels.
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More fuel for a Cayman Consumer Protection Act.
Just like the water authority who despite charging huge amounts for sewerage have failed to increase their plant capacity since it was built. Do they not understand more population means more sh@t??
The Office Of Regulators should have to answer for this. That CUC can deflect blaming the CIG, this lands squarely with Off Reg. They are the one who have hamstring the electrical provider by telling them how much capacity they can produce, or how they wait on competition to provide a tended to produce electricity for consumption.
Similarly, how can OF Reg or CUC tell a private consumer who WILL NOT connect to the grid or sell back electricity how much they can produce? They are essentially saying you can only use the Sun to produce as much electricity as they say.
If it’s not connected to the grid, it doesn’t involve either of CUC or OfReg. Hope that helps.
Don’t worry once we re-elect Bernie Jay and Kenneth they will solve the complicated problems facing our islands. Cayman better wake up. Why did we think that our current elected officials could solve any of our problems.
From day one, [insert applicable department or authority acronym] has had the classic hallmarks of a CIG boondoggle. Deliberately inefficient. Deliberately designed to make sure that certain well connected people have jobs.
It seems that if the additional capacity that CUC requested had been approved, we would not be facing potential power cuts during the peak-draw early evening hours.
If we are lucky, the 20MW battery energy storage system, due to be commissioned in the next 30 days, will come on-line just in time to enable the excess solar power generated during the day to be released in the late afternoon and early evening hours; provided that excess is enough.
Logic suggests utility-scale solar is lower ‘cost’ than residential; cheaper to finance, install, maintain and insure. There is a reason why we don’t all self-generate our electricity with generators.
The ultimate ‘price’ per kWh depends on what the Regulator allows CUC to earn on its investment.
We all want cheaper electricity.
The sooner utility-scale solar can be introduced, the sooner the fuel cost pass-through can be reduced, which should help lower our electricity bills.
For those who want and can afford full energy independence, install solar and batteries and disconnect fully from the grid. You will no longer pay for the grid, but you also will have to be completely self-sufficient if anything breaks down.
For the majority, it likely makes more sense that solar be done by a utility, at scale. Having competing energy providers seems likely to end up being more- rather than less- expensive, because of the loss of the benefits from scale.
The following Compass article from just over two years ago may be of interest, “Here comes the sun: CUC reveals ambition for six solar farms”, https://www.caymancompass.com/2022/03/03/here-comes-the-sun-cuc-reveals-ambition-for-six-solar-farms/
Not a CUC employee or shareholder.
To caveat for you, the utility sized solar doesn’t have to come from CUC. But agreed it can provide the cheapest energy.
But as usual not accounting for the social (and grid resiliency) benefits of distributed generation (rooftop solar) in your list of costs.
Any insight on how to quantify?
Seemingly, you gain diversification of locations, but you lose control of the generation source, which makes forecasting harder.
Not a whole lot of diversification on a 76 square mile island, to be honest.
time to join the dots….
how many mla’s own shares in cuc?
how many mla’s are lodge?
how many ofreg puppetts are lodge?
Forget about the friggin lodge, what one should be concerned about is the number of Cabinet Ministers and MLA’s who own CUC shares and get a very nice return every year.
That is the crux of the overall problem with CUC.
why isn’t a portion of tax from New developments not going toward infrastructure? Residents are paying for this fallout from lack of infrastructure.
Planning approves development plans. Each new development should submit their energy usage and be taxed according at the developer level.
These developments should also be required to use solar panels to assist with not burdening the load.
Public funds should not be used to balance CUCs shortcomings. If we are to consider using tax funds for that purpose, we must first nationalize the utility.
Cuc appears to be the worst thing to ever happen to Cayman. It is bad for everyone here other than the small number of shareholders that live locally.
Politicians should never have been allowed to invest but that’s water under the bridge now.
Cuc place profits above Caymanians and it must stop. Don’t let cuc confuse you with marketing language and promises of sea water power which we all know will never happen
Cuc should be pushing to get regen and other project done but they obstruct everything
Well quite frankly I think CUC is doing an outstanding job. Everyone is happy with the fair prices and even if there’s power outages a dozen or more times it’s still better than nothing right! I think CUC rate hikes are pretty darn good in this day and age.
Thank you CUC for your all around A+ service to the community.
‘Frank’ly, the rest of us think you’re full of shit and/or paid by CUC to feel the way you do.
“Everyone is happy with the fair prices”? Obviously someone else pays your CUC bill. Plus it’s easy to say eveyone is happy with the fair prices when there is no other option. You need competition to realize just how badly they are bending us over the barrel dry.
If CUC hadn’t deliberately stalled the WTE project, they’d be receiving power for distribution pretty soon now and wouldn’t have to play this silly game with OfReg now.
Not sure how CUC is stalling anything. There isn’t even a contract between Regen and CIG, and it will still take 3+ years from then for Regen to build their WTE infrastructure.
If my home appliances are damaged in anyway by these power outages I’m going to raise hell. CUC better be prepared to reimburse people for damaged equipment and spoiled food!!!
Oh come off your high horse you’re not going to raise hell. It may be hotter than hell without air conditioning but maybe it’s for the best. Buy a yoga matt and do some hot yoga workouts when the power goes out. Think outside the box concentration not strength be a proud peacock 🦚. Encouragement yes! Channel that energy!
You fool doing yoga won’t stop my fridge or stove from going out. If you had a brain you’d understand my point. Most people don’t have money laying around to fix such expensive equipment.
This grave situation is does constitute force majeure as there appears to be maladministration on the part of OfReg. However it technically does put CUC in breach of their licence. Either way it’s a cluster *uck. The pragmatic thing for OfReg to do is to expedite permitting of any and all renewable proposals in the pipeline that provide maximum power in the late afternoon hours, solar direct systems excluded.
The CIG should warn CUC that not fulfilling its power generation license will lead to its revocation. It’s not acceptable to forecast a service interruption based on deficient infrastructure spending when you’re a licensed monopolist. The CIG shouldn’t just threaten, but be prepared to cut up the exclusivity agreement and open the energy market if CUC fumbles the ball.
Think you will find that CUC are fulfilling their license. They can only add power generation when allowed to by OfReg. That clause was added a number of years ago. Hence they told OfReg of the looming issues as stated in the article and guess who did nothing.
but they won’t because government members are likely CUC shareholders.
this comment makes no sense. CUC has been trying to get a new generator to keep up with the growing demand and govt and the climate nazis wants green energy instead. you can’t restrict a business then say they need to provide more.
First little downpour of the rainy season today and CUC goes out. A real third world powerhouse we have in CUC.
Didn’t even rain in prospect.
Bury, the, damn, power, lines.
Run an undersea cable from Power and Light then.
An under sea power cable?? hmm
Yes, an undersea power cable! They do exist, you know! There is already one from CUC main facility on N. Sound Road to their West Bay Substation. Hence WB was one of the first to receive power after Ivan’s devastation.
Running one from Brac Power & Light as the poster suggested is a bit extreme and would be quite costly though! Not even sure BP&L could make-up the supply shortfall.
Not even close, though I bet BP&L would enjoy the cheaper energy they could try to draw from Grand.
Google is your friend.
More solar!
this country is being ran by clowns. you have a monopoly running the most critical infrastructure. you make that monopoly limit your people from doing for themselves. you then proposed green initiative that you have idea how to implement. the end of result of all this tom foolery is everybody suffers.
Where is the government official comment to this? Is the monopolist licensed to both gouge our consumers AND fail to deliver the licensed deliverable? What exactly is preventing CUC from building alternative energy production, as licensed, to properly manage and eliminate their anticipated shortfall? If they can’t manage their enterprise or deliver on the single-source consumer license, perhaps it should be forfeited.
“What exactly is preventing CUC from building alternative energy production, as licensed, to properly manage and eliminate their anticipated shortfall?”
Regulatory action.
Only because they also make profits from CUC! Eliminate anyone investing. start the payouts to everyone who invested and turn this company into a not for profit. Electricity should NOT be a luxury. Get solar on every building, over parking lots, in open land and let that go back to the grid. Plant trees that actually shade in public places and parks and stop the ripping out of mangroves. It’s not hard, it’s easy once you take the profits from the greedy.
Doing the above would benefit the country not their shareholders. They choose their shareholders 1st every time which as a private company is what they should do. No one has yet had the bravery or courage at a political level to change this. Demand better, demand change, demand progression. This scare tactic is appalling though – holding the country ransom so they can continue their monopoly.
Not Juju’s style to talk to the people and she’s busy building the school in the Brac that no one asked for!
Looks like CUC are taking a leaf out of South Africa’s book
Yeah….this is bullshit and the folks at CUC should be ashamed. As should ofreg.
So we’ve known this trend was coming forever but don’t allow new diesel because we’re “going green” yet solar is still basically non viable based on how it’s set up.
This is CUC getting the people fired up so they will petition ofreg to let them install a new generator or some other thing they want. When they go to do that, they’re also going to request a rate increase to help cover the cost.
As a matter of fact about 7 years or so ago they introduced demand billing for commercial customers. That rate structure was billed as “revenue neutral” and has a specific line in it dedicated to covering the cost of increased peak capacity. It measures the 24month kw (not kWh) peak demand for the meter and bills that amount every month. As far as I’ve researched it is the highest charge on earth for this (called a ratchet charge).
A few months after they came out with that rate structure they found that their revenue was going down (supposedly) as they apparently did a shit job of the math over the two/three years spent collecting the data for this structure. They went crying to ofreg who gave them a permission to increase the rate by an obscene amount.
CUC are crooks. Ofreg is completely incompetent from the board at the top all the way down to the bottom and everyone in between.
I think the new government with JuJu at the helm and Jay and Kenny as first lieutenants can handle this.
A $1 billon solar farm on Cayman Brac will take care of everything. The excess green energy will be stored in containers and shipped to The Grand weekly by Thompson barge.
They just need to construct a few more buildings to house the workers who will be employed to harvest the solar crop.
LOL
Priced out of Paradise!- this will only effect the poor, the rich folks have their solar panels and generators.
The decision to limit residential solar and not invest in industrial level energy storage is looking like a great idea right now. Well done CUC, hats off.
Why should the solar producers not be the ones investing in energy storage?
Welcome to mini Jamaica! Well, we have arrived. That appears to be what the politicians have been diligently working to create. Next the cry will be, “Fill up unna bokkle wata tun milky!” Let’s see how fast Water Authority piggy backs on this.
Where did this huge additional power demand come from? Perhaps from the monstrous new hotels that are being developed without having to pay for infrastructure upgrades and improvements. They surely deserved all those concessions – LOL
Yes. What CUC chooses to call “economic growth.” Don’t know about you, but it wasn’t my economy that grew, but you can bet I will have to help pay for the necessary infrastructure growth.
Stop development until we can have a proper power supply.
Infrastructure has not kept pace with the developments.
Electricity, water, sewer, roads all need upgrades.
I call bullshit. Schools are closed and people are traveling for two of those months. Little if any load increase.
Did you note the PEAK time frame? Hint it is after school time, so that is of no relevance.
to 7.41 The important part of that sentence is that ‘people are travelling’ie off island and hence using less power locally.
Plus I reckon a lot less tourists in those hot months.
Fewer, not less
Would changing that word help you to better understand their statement, or are you just being pedantic to make up for your lack of any actual contribution to the conversation?
and yet more and more 10 story eyesores goin up along 7 mile. sure they won’t have a single outage.
As long as they only cut power to expats homes, what’s the problem?
This is simply warning shots to Ofreg. Question is, will they call their bluff? If so, we might go dark for a bit.
We wouldn’t be in this tight spot if the door was fully open to competition. Instead we have the OfReg enabled CUC monopoly who dictate what renewable power technology Cayman has access to via their grid.
Separate the damn grid from CUC and allow real unbridled competition. And if OfReg can’t regulate with their own people, not consultants then the Office of Procurement needs to cut OfReg out of the equation and tender design/build/commission power projects out directly to overseas to qualified overseas entities. Then license these entities to provide power to the Nationalized Grid.
A question to CNS, can you make inquire with OfReg how many proposals for renewable power are currently sitting in dusty piles on their desks and when these proposals were first submitted? Obviously OfReg is not performing as expected, it’s just the gatekeeper for telecom, fuel providers and primarily CUC. Consumers are being held ransom.
So which town do you know of that has a grid operating separately from production? Imagine government (OfReg) running and maintaining the grid when they’ve taken several years to put of an RFP for utility scale solar.
I suppose I could list every town in the UK, but to save time then the easiest answer to your question is: The whole of the UK
So you can name a town in the UK that has it’s own grid and power production source operated by separate entities. Wow, which one?
Far as I am aware all towns/cities/villages/hamlets/etc in the UK are connected to the national grid. Yes it is separate from the production side but NEITHER are exclusive to a town.
Well quite frankly I am totally fine with rolling power outages each month but only if CUC promises to have it not impact our rising monthly CUC utilities bill.
Full payments for the month regardless if the power is off, super hot 🥵 inside the house, food melting, no internet to watch the always truthful CCN none of these excuses none should prevent higher bills.
When I hear Beyoncé Can You Pay My Bill song I want to feel in right down in my plums.
CUC is a beacon of light 💡 to the community
What a total disgrace. End this monopoly. Let us generate our own from solar.
Feel free to do so. No one is required to connect to CUC. But note that mean NO CONNECTION so each person is fully responsible for maintenance/service & repair of their person power production.
What…?
If only there was an abundant source of natural energy nearby….
At 8pm 😂
You should google “solar battery storage “.
Unna think those things come free? No sh*t that batteries can store the solar energy for later, but last time I checked, purchase and installation costs here make that a tough pill to swallow.
Here’s an example. If it costs me $20k to put in a battery, and the battery is expected to last 10-15 years, I need to make an additional $1,333-2,000 per year from my same solar energy just to break even. And I assure you that I’m not dropping $20k just to break even, so add even more to what I need to make this decision.
Batteries, like brains, store valuable resources… Guessing you lack the latter to not understand this concept.
Have you ever heard of batteries?
You may be surprised to know there are batteries for that.
From which people were freely allowed to produce their own electricity, as God intended.
A proposal for a much larger system has been on OfReg’s desk for more than 6 years and the 3 year EIA was completed in 2016. CUC don’t want this to happen and so have continually put obstacles in place to prevent it from becoming a reality:
https://www.offshore-energy.biz/south-korea-to-support-otec-scheme-in-pacific-ocean/
https://sdgs.un.org/partnerships/republic-korea-has-pledged-carry-out-marine-energy-oda-programs-including-ocean#:~:text=The%20Republic%20of%20Korea%20will,and%20use%20it%20for%20hydroponics.
OfReg colluding with CUC to prevent renewable energy technologies such as this from ever disrupting the status quo? You be the judge…
https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2014/Ocean_Thermal_Energy_V4_web.pdf
Give this a read. Nothing larger than 1MW has ever been built. The costs of this technology are through the roof (7-10x more than even solar and batteries), and the projections in this same report of providing power even at parity to current costs will require huge advancements in commercialization that may take decades to materialize. No thank you.
Thanks but a rather outdated report from 2014. The technology has advanced considerably since the report was published and generation costs are on par with solar. However solar only produces during daylight hours whereas OTE operates 24/7. No batteries are required which is solar power’s Achilles heel compared to OTE.
That’s what happens with all the greed, big head foolishness, no intelligence, no planning but open up the doors to 100,000 people….
Excuse me but CUC is not greedy no evidence ever shows that. CUC provides noble service and a fair and reasonable price. Service with a smile love for the people and we should all feel gratitude and joy paying CUC bills.
Spot the CUC shill…
LOL!
Thank you 3:41 pm, you hit the nail on the head! Grand Cayman is overcrowded, especially with one foreign nationality.This has been encouraged and allowed by elected politicians.This has grown at an alarming rate under the gang now in office! Let’s put the blame where it belongs; with greedy politicians that we the people voted for. Caymanians should be ashamed of the destruction that we allowed of our homeland and our way of life by greedy, ignorant politicians. Dr Roy saved us from this sorrowful plight but fools since him have been brainwashed and allowed the takeover that is now blatantly obvious. A sad and disgusting situation.
Pathetic. Too many dividends going to share holders with not enough investment in infrastructure to handle obvious changes in climate. Now, watch for an item to appear on your bill. . .something like “Hot Weather Surcharge” just like the Hurricane Ivan recovery charge. What daylight robbery that was. CUC share holders, it’s time to cough up to improve the outdated, second-hand generators you use to power the country. If CUC didn’t have a monopoly, directors would be filling their diapers!
Well quite frankly the only thing pathetic is your negative attitude. Majority of the community quite frankly are fond of CUC for you and me you see. If power goes out just sit under a tree. They will get the power back just wait and see.
never been a better time for solar. why are they leaving us in the dark for profits?!
This is a threat, make no mistake. CUC doesn’t want to break up their monopoly so they threaten load shedding because they aren’t getting the green light on every whim. If they allowed people to power their own homes with solar during peak sunshine hours and pull from the grid at night it would 100% alleviate the capacity issue. People shouldn’t have to go through a whole selling their solar to CUC and then buying it back or offsetting it at a crappy fixed rate for 20 years that continually diminishes the value of the investment. If people were told they could power their own house with their solar investment, so that much of their power during sunny time was free, they would have washing machines, dryers, and dishwashers running during that time, they would bring their AC down a few degrees in the day, turn it off when they got home, and back on again when they went to bed. People would have an incentive to invest in solar and the grid would not be overloaded. As it stands CUC feels threatened so their response like any thug is “nice economy you have here, be a shame if something happened to it.”
Interesting view, except their press release says the greatest need is in the evenings, so that solar idea of yours, even though it’s a good one, doesn’t solve the problem.
Ever hear of batteries?
They have heard of them but do not wish to pay for them.
Batteries. CUC is particularly hostile toward home batteries.
Your suggestion doesnt address capacity. If everyone pulls from the grid in the evening (including those getting solar power during the day), you need the capacity to handle everyone pulling from the grid in the evening. And during the day you will have excess capacity.
That is the solar fallacy, that it reduces the need for grid capacity. Unless excess solar is stored in batteries, it doesnt help with the capacity issue.
I assume you think the demand would not change if someone had free energy during the day and pay for energy at night? Would you not change your habits if it was free to do your laundry during daylight hours? Of course you would, so would anyone using solar, therefore changing the overall demand during evening hours. The commenter addressed this in the original comment.
And yet, despite that structure relatively being the case in places like California, where time of use rates both on consumption and solar exports sending strong price signals to incent behavior, this isn’t playing out as much as you posit would naturally occur. Unless you automate your home to undertake these decisions for you by programming in your preferences to pricing, I assure you that most people are not going to change their lifestyle meaningfully.
OfReg is a joke. How can one department be so incompetent and slow in everything they do and still get a pass, yet we like to call our Civil Service “world class.” Come on Mr. Manderson do your job for a change, kick these jokers into high gear.
I think it might be time we start talking about Deputy Governor being an elected position, who’s holding Mr. Manderson accountable for all the incompetence we keep hearing about at CIG…
OfReg is a Statutory Authority and does not fall under the preview of the Deputy Governor. It is overseen by a Board of members chosen by Cabinet and are probably the highest paid of all SAGC’s Boards.
Purview?
I fully agree! Our DG position should absolutely have a term limit… as should the CUC monopoly.
Thanks OfReg! No one is held accountable on these Cayman Islands!
How’s about businesses and schools try to conserve energy in the evenings. The amount of schools and office buildings i see empty with lights running during the evening is ridiculous
It may be wasteful but it’s the early evening demand of people returning home , running the ac to cool the house down and cooking dinner that is the demand side of the problem. I dare say that after 8 pm thee isn’t an issue.
The JGHS A.C is on freezing when I’ve been there in the evenings.
Airport freezing
Hospital freezing
Try to get government to make temperature 78 at the lowest 9 to 5 and 82 the rest of the time.
In fairness to the hospital, I think the ac being cold has something to do with the spread of germs, as it’s harder in colder temps. Cold temps slow bacterial growth. It might be the same for the airport as well.
https://www.wikihow.com/Why-Are-Hospitals-Cold
Well I work at a certain big law firm that turns their AC off every weekend, so we are doing out part 🙂
Whooppeee…freeze every other day and wear sweaters..to keep the employees awake LOL
Clappy hands LOL Why wouldn’t they turn it off at weekends…
They should make the blackout selections fun-like the Powerball or throw darts!
Make sure you get your electric vehicles down there…
Of course if CUC had not actively fought against domestic and personal Solar production for the past 10 years the situation now could be very different. The island is blessed with a huge natural resource where many homes could now be self sufficient or providing much of their need. CUC has campaigned relentlessly to prevent that. Don’t be fooled by the ridiculous CORE program. Imagine where we would be as a nation had CUC worked with homeowners for the last 10 years. The legacy CUC campaign to protect the monopoly now bites CUC badly.
Perfectly put. But instead they are scaring the nation and trying to hold it hostage to ensure they retain the control over the people. Old school tactics being deployed by an entity well past its sell by date. Time to rise up against this insidious scourge of our nation.
…while OfReg colludes with CUC and Sol to block energy transition to renewables. You can’t make this stuff up.
…its not like we have unlimited free sunlight to power our homes with net metering, now do we…oh wait a minute, we have that useless “CORE” program……
So while we wait for OfReg to do a long overdue RFP, the lights are going out. What is this competition going to bring us? Will anyone even beat CUC’s cost?
Nooo man, unna gonna let CUC warn unna like that!!
Stop expanding our population until we have the infrastructure to sustain it What does the DG’s Grandiose sustainability unit policy say or do they even have one ?
“In 2019, CUC predicted increased consumer demand and proposed a 13-megawatt solar plus storage project as a clean energy option. OfReg did not approve the proposal pending the initiation of a competitive bid for such a project. However, the regulator has still not opened an official bid, even though CUC warned in 2021 that it was facing increasing consumer demand that it would not be able to meet.”
This, boys and girls, if what happens when third world voters elect third world politicians, who appoint third world regulators. We now risk third world power cuts! Good luck attracting tourists if Cayman is so overtly regressing towards African standards of power generation and governance.
Perhaps spend money on this, rather than wote-buying via JuJu’s pointless/corrupt Brac boondoggle school, the associated workers’ accommodation, etc. What, no wotes for JuJu in keeping the lights on?
“……is what happens when third world voters elect third world politicians, who appoint third world regulators….”
Wait a minute – how did CIMA get into this thread?
OfReg is the independent regulator of Electricity Service Providers.
only thing is that CUC actively fought against solar power storage at the individual level, talking about destabilizing the grid. All for greed.
What a bunch of BS! This is their stiff-arm approach to get what they want! CIG needs to change legislation to allow individuals to generate and store their own energy without having to feed it back to the grid. I don’t want a credit on my bill which can be wipe away a year later if unused. I want cash for my energy!
You CAN produce and store all the power you can generate. Just without a grid connection as I DO NOT wish to pay for your ability to draw from the grid when wish to, e.g. if you have a storage issue or need to do maintenance, etc.
hahah…3rd world stuff…thanks for nothing again cig!
the incompetence of the civil service and cig is never ending…
any comment mrs governor?
3rd world like… Texas?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12785185/Texas-officials-warn-rolling-blackouts-winter.html
And Canada.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/rotating-brownouts-leave-thousands-of-albertans-without-power-1.7165290#:~:text=Tens%20of%20thousands%20of%20Alberta,plants%20weren't%20generating%20electricity.
and South Africa
Texas’ insistence on having an independent grid and avoiding regulation is the source of their issues.
The Biden effect
29 @ 5:15 am – Texas has a Republican Governor, and has had one for years!
What’s Biden got to do with that??
Mr Gough at Ofreg, any comments?
Yes, thank you for allowing me to continue to sit on my hands and collect a big fat paycheck well past my retirement date.