Ok! Reducing energy cost is the first step to revolution. Dr Strachan is a visionary and he's at the top so we may just be going somewhere

Plans should be afoot to solarize every major government building in the country, including schools within 10 years. This should also include schools and major stretches of highway on the family islands. Countries like China, India and Japan have committed to making only electric cars within two to five years. And if you want one of the new n model Tesla electric cars you will have to wait two to three years after placing the order. It will be interesting to see what happens to the price of gasoline over the next few years and The Bahamas and Bahamians will have to be wary of countries trying to dump near obsolete gas powered vehicles in this country in the near future. Will gas powered vehicles become totally obsolete?

FINALLY a step in the right direction!

Excellent

Way past due after for how many years everyone including many businesses and companies have complained that the power costs have been one of the highest in the Caribbean and a major deterrant to doing business and had publictly stated so. "Work on economic energy development rate" needs to be quickly turn into cheaper prices reality.

Dr Strachan believes GB is poised for transformation. I have heard of re renewable
energy before. Lest we forget Strachan give credit to the PLP Government for the
collage and now the University of the Bahamas. They did many thing RIGHT.

This will do nothing for reduced energy rates, only their bottom line net profits.
Meanwhile, their "Energy Rider Program" as it existed (and until suspended) did not compensate anyone with a private Alt energy system who back fed Kwh. Free to them power which they then sell to other customers at full pop. That program stretched Return on investment from 4 years to 24!
A national Energy program is needed but seems this lot can't figure it out.
Where does the also suspended national policy sit anyway?
Meanwhile, the country bleeds foreign reserves for black gold.
Typical.
No, we will remain dead last in Alternate energy development in the Caribbean for the foreseeable future.

yep
from time to time some solar energy sales people make a pitch around here.

i have never believed in this 3-4 year return on investment, and, when i did the math, bpl is just cheaper.

the batteries are ridiculously priced, until their cost is reduced, solar is not worth it.

it is a 5-6 year return. the life of hte Pv cells has not really been tested. could be 50 years. battery technology is still stuck at 10 year. so you pay for it in 6 years, and get 4 years free energy. disposal is the real issue.

I have been looking at the way Florida and Florida Power and Light have been operating. I am convinced that their multi-prong approach is the way forward. Bahamians always want a single answer and that never makes sense. I call it religious lottery thinking. As if one thing will solve all problems. (Oban) In Florida the energy plan doesn't seem to involve demanding everyone to transform their homes into individual energy grids- but there is a program giving low interest loans to homeowners to make homes more energy efficient which also includes the installation of hurricane windows. New housing being built are all are mandated to be green builds with some going completely solar. In addition the main grid managed by FPL is generating energy in multiple ways- huge solar component paid for by the other components and now producing a high percentage of their energy. So much so that there was a commercial earlier this year indicating a 30% drop in energy costs. Good gracious! A drop. Compared to us, their energy costs were already low and now this. Why can't Bahamians think in complex ways? Why are we always looking at a single answer? Why can't we develop and maintain systems to solve our problems? Energy generation is one of the major economic dead weights holding this country back. The fact that no government has been able to move forward on solving this issue as long as I have been on this earth speaks volumes for the lack of vision and leadership- and doesn't bode well for the future.

Why is BPL not investing in these solar plants on the Out Islands?????? ........ This is the perfect solution to get these small electrical markets off fossil fuels ....... and the islands have more than enough space to accommodate solar/wind farms .......... But they worrying about LNG now.