Ma comrade, think it has be in lane way PeoplePpublic, who will have first put squeeze Papa Hubert in coo-hoots with the Peoples Her Excellency Marguerite, to fire Minnis, KP, along with Carl Wilshire.

Tal---The Dame's days are numbered--She better act fast!!

What most of you don't know is that Minnis has family members and cronies who have a horse in the race to put solar panels on every roof top in the Bahamas.

I was looking for you! WTH is this?? We're Moxey and Headtie all over the radio the other day talking about how solar is only good for daytime and everyone to work so that's not a solution??? They'll make a straight line crooked

Colour me confused....if, as the Mad Doc says, every household has a solar panel and generates an excess of electricity then sells the surplus back to the power company......who exactly is left to use all this power? Certainly not any private individuals - they have more than enough for their needs. So we are left with businesses......who surely would demand a reduction in the cost of their supply, as BEC / FPL is basically getting their own juice from we taxpayers. This, of course, means that businesses will be excluded from the scheme, as they and government offices are the only end-of-the-line users left. Which is absurd, because surely the proposal discriminates against businesses having solar panels on their (large) rooftops just like the rest of us. Is Doc a reincarnation of Oprah? YOU get free electricity....YOU get free electricity......YOU get free electricity.

But there's more......."The rich can use it as a form of investment and replace the power station." qouth the Doc, really getting the bit between his teeth. Let's do away with the power company and we can all use each other's solar power. Then who makes sure that the electricity stays on, that the lines are maintained, that bunkers are filled when demand exceeds supply etc etc etc

My head hurts just thinking about the economics of this. Once again the people in "power" issue nonsensical utterances without apparently thinking them through.

Comedy Central!

lol

Power has been out in the West since 7 AM today. It is now 5:30 PM and power is still out.

What an absolute crock of crap. BPL has red tape a mile long and frustrates home owners who want to install solar at every turn. They want Bahamians enslaved to their ineptitude and high prices. The Prime Minister can change all this with a five minute phone call. The prime minister should stop lying to the Bahamian people, if he is serious remove the absurdly low kw limits on Bahamians in the family islands and end the red tape, otherwise SHUT UP and stop insulting the intelligence of the Bahamian people.

Amen ........ and Amen!!!!!!!

No Out Island needs BPL if we had ease of access to install solar/wind power in their homes (without all the red tape).

Me thinks a bit of fundamental education is in order,
"selling" excess back to the power co might be nice, but most would be satisfied to zero their own bill.
Especially if BPL/BEC is still holding onto their dying horse and URCA is behind the times.
No, the grid in Nassau will catastrophically crash long before they get their cumulative arses in gear.
Trying to control what existed 10 years ago is futile. Being caught unawares by what exists today is inevitable.

MBGA, Make Bahamas Great Again? Don't have that ring.
I want to believe in solar but $100 - $300 a month output is a stretch.
I like the systems but with the salt environment I wonder about
reliability and maintenance then you have the hurricane factor.

While the Back feeding limits are ludicrously conservative, and for all the wrong reasons, it does not limit your system size: your property consumption does.
It would seem to me that BEC/BPL issue positions convenient to them and their careers, Politicians issue nonsensical statements illustrating their ignorance based on the biased positions of the above, and the public know even less because of the conflicting positions which fly in the face of the irrefutable laws of physics.
Utility scale Solar, even if and when BEC/BPL decide it is a good idea, (well proven in the rest of the world, but we are special aren't we?) will be funded as investments by the wealthy.
Those who can, will, until government gets in the way.
Those who cannot, cannot because the government is already in the way.
Good ideas are free: implementation requires inspiration, and the investment of time, tithes or talents, often all three.
Open the gates, stand back, Ministry of works inspectors need simply follow the Canadian electrical code,(the code we use)
wherein they will find all required aspects neatly written for their edification.
That this has even become a political issue defies belief.

Lets first compare costs;
-SOLAR; $184- $400
-Offshore WIND; $204..a bit unreliable
-diesel; $250
-natural gas; $54

If this is truly a viable approach then convert all government buildings to solar. Then mandate all commercial buildings to produce some percentage of their energy consumption via solar/renewable technology. When industry proves the technology then maybe the general public will adopt it as well. Renewable energy is great however it has yet to be proven that it is a financially wise decision and appropriate for the Bahamas. What happens when you start attaching these panels to your roof? How will they hold up in a hurricane? The average Bahamian doesn't have money to risk.