There are other players, the world energy industry is not only comprised of Shell, BP, Mobil, Chevron... or Venezuela.
This countries' fuel demands are relatively minor, is this why you don't see these mega-players knocking on your door? Shell believes it has all the cards, forcing the govt./consumers to build the plants that they will ultimately own, with a few select Bahamian investors. +15% is the beginning.
It is too high now!

This practice of elimination of civil servants positions because of their political preference is archaic & most troublesome.
archaic, because in ones vocation, a person should rightfully expect to be terminated due to illegal activities or poor performance of their responsibilities and be provided with legal means of challenging their political detractors. This builds pride in oneself & your work.
troublesome, because a pattern of self-survival develops, knowing you only have a short period of employment during this political term thus you must make the best of it, by hook or crook. Knowing he prospects of termination for poor performance is slim, particularly if it was not earned by skill nor ability. Thus an attitude & poor service prevails... today a most familiar complaint.
Are these not the foundation stones of corruption & stagnation? becoming a type of institutional accepted corruption... no wonder the Old Boys mentality prevails, i.e.: its who you know & what you can get, not what you are capable of providing to the well being of society.
no government is perfect! why we have elections.

From reading pre-election newspapers, it appears the Public knows more about Other Proposals for BPL than their own Board & Former Cabinet. Ai'nt that convenient!

There are many convenient excuses presented here, also consider:
1. not enough square footage for a Solar Farm; loads of square footage of rooftops.
2. Financing problems for rooftops PV's in leasing or ownership programs, is based on BPL's poor management & credit standing. With the current enthusiasm for Climate Action there are a myriad of NGO programs which can provide financial help to owners if managed by the utility & government (keyword Managed). They want owners to carry all the risk.
3. Battery storage is an issue for a Solar Farm, not so for individual rooftop units with their own wall storage units. Provided they can be financed in the complete package.
4. Excess power provided by rooftops during the day is consumed individually or contributed to the grid via controller/battery units. i.e.: less fuel consumed during day.
5. Current quality issues for the utility receiving power from rooftops, todays good inverters/controllers & battery wall units have minimized this issue. Quality affected by the state of grid & transformer condition.
6. Rooftop PV will require additional & improved BPL management, the largest reason for poor grid conditions & poor financials.

Wonder what it would be like if Freeport had the original 250,000 population instead of present 30,000 or so? What would be their excuses?
GB well water is known to be hard & corrosive, but you are only paying for electricity to run a pump, salt content varies with weather. Municipal water quality & quantity are expensive and expected. PA failed once again, AquaDesign looking for new market?

After reading these comments, all can say is FDA approved the booster shot for people that have serious immune system issues... it is an emergency we are living under.
Lets not forget the FDA approved Viagra & many many men have died from that drug! ...Some by wives claiming miss use also. Miss who?
Go to any hospital with Covid, ask nurses, take pictures/videos of patients that are drowning in their fluid filled lungs, ask them how they doing? Look at the misery tv interviews with those who wished they had taken the vaccine.
What are you going to tell your grandchildren? I listened to others, instead of science. ... provided you survive.
Ignorance is not Bliss, it is Death.
Doctors & Nurses that know the science... They are seriously Stupid!! or think they are Superior to this population control virus.

Foreigners understand the Third World mentality of 'slip me something & I will look the other way'.
If Bahamians themselves do not respect the sovereignty rules enough to enforce them, why should foreigners do it for them?
Case in point, this event, Cruise ship garbage dumping, Shipping ballast-water dumping, North BiminiCubana, and many more...

Someone in the Bahamas Media should do a 'Follow The Money' investigatory report on this Severely Bandaged utility. Assuming they have any cojones left, must be quick about it, as if the Shell America contract is signed, opening the door to the Business as Usual motif. Shell reneged on their responsibility to provide replacement plants, instead you have used rebuilt units in new buildings to be paid by the customers.
The expensive LNG fuel will require millions of gallons per hour of warm seawater to make the gas usable from its cryogenic state. This cold water runoff will kill any tropical sea life it encounters. Then there is the expensive facility to warm the Trinidad/Venezuela LNG, so who gets what? Inquiring Minds want to Know!
There are alternatives, in proposals on BPL exec's desk.
Natural Compressed Gas from US, Florida or Texas; at 1/3rd the price/cost, is one. Same equipment conversion process as LNG.
Florida Power & Light uses natural gas on 72% of their power plants... must be something right.

If the Delta variant is in Miami, it's in Bimini, that quaint latino-ized extension of Little Havana, which the government has sold out. A recent visit was an eye opener, after 40+ years of visiting Bimini... no more!
The same can be said for Sand Cay, does MSC require vaccines?

Given the choice, I personally I would not want an unvaccinated nurse attending me. If life or death situation? ok. The vaccine does not prevent getting the Corona19 virus, it assist your immune system to lessen the effect of the virus. In other words, you may get a slight cough versus having a 1" diameter tube thrust down your throat, having to be on your stomach, head down to drain your lungs of slime.
Do you not take a flu shot to minimize the yearly flu season?
In the interest of maintaining highly skilled front-line manpower to address a highly contagious disease, the hospitals should mandate vaccines. Pilots are mandated to be experienced in craft & licensed; car drivers mandated to be licensed & have insurance.
You are educated and trained in science, or just a robot who absorbed a routine of procedures for a paycheck?
Think about it.