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City residents to benefit from energy saving initiative

 

GINA May 17, 2006

Residents of Georgetown are scheduled to benefit from government’s energy saving initiative within a week, following its successful completion in several other areas around the country.

The project which began in March, facilitates the free exchange of high-energy consuming incandescent bulbs for low-energy compact-fluorescent lamps and is currently being executed by a team of Cuban technicians in collaboration with the local executing agency Guyana Power & Light (GPL).

It has been successfully completed in Linden, Ituni, Kwakwani, and Mapletown, Region Ten; Bartica, Region Seven and several coastal areas and islands in Region Three.

The project is being rapidly advanced in Regions Five and Six and more than 100,000 bulbs have since been distributed.

Residents and organisations in Kingston, South Georgetown, will be the first in the city to benefit from the programme, after which it will be extended to homes and small business throughout other parts of the capital.

Government is currently awaiting the arrival of some 300,000 240-volt lamps in order to service a number of remaining communities.

Residents are being urged to make full use of this initiative which aims at reducing the national and individual energy bills.

The energy-saving programme is being implemented by other Caribbean States including Jamaica.

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