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IDB president urges Caricom to look inwards for renewable energy

Stabroek News-June 21st 2007

With the right reforms and investments, Guyana, Jamaica and Barbados could substitute at least ten per cent of their current gasoline consumption with domestic ethanol fuel, President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Moreno has said.

Quoting from a study the IDB financed in collaboration with Caricom at the opening of the three-day Conference of the Caribbean at the World Bank on Tuesday, he said that if they adopt the latest technology these three countries could also co-generate a total of 100 megawatts of electricity by burning sugarcane bagasse. The study, on expanding bio-fuel …


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 …


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