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totherisingsun says...

BEC provides poor quality power or no power at all with the highest rates in the world. Residential and commercial customers can go off grid with a battery solar system. The result is continuous, highest quality power at a fixed rate and free of external increases. A state of the art solar system even powers air conditioning 24/7. Continue to invest in a failed institution or invest in yourself. You can turn your generator off and save fuel.

totherisingsun says...

Pay your stall fee or lose the privilege
Pay your light bill or be disconnected
Pay your water bill or don't bathe
Pay the Piper who has promised you everything as he sweetly leads you off the cliff
Choose this day...more help from your creativity and community or more government help?

totherisingsun says...

It's only $45M in the hands of a public official who Beliieves in da People...Let's do it and show that once again we are True Believers in the ability of public institutions to be excellent... and don't forget the car with the red plate and free gas for all those who serve da peoples. Why not $500M and we all join the public sector... we can always borrow more money or tax business more?!

totherisingsun says...

Only 4.5 years and counting to get a solar system passed. Pay to play or be shelved. Why not "tip" the World Bank and get us at the top of the list and show them how efficient we can be? Tips like marijuana should be legalized since it is so common, "everyone's doing it" and there's no harm in it...right!

totherisingsun says...

The word "profitable" being mentioned must be based on BPLs definition of profitability?

totherisingsun says...

The Renewable Energy Providers neither misunderstood nor misinterpreted the URCA document. They were specifically responding to the resg.
urcas response sounds like a press release from BPL

BECs debt is owned by the public and that same public has no desire to prop it up any longer. It is a failed institution and should be deregulated. The debt should be taken out of the pensions of those who drove it into the ground. The public did not manage it they just keep getting taxed for it

totherisingsun says...

The Regulatory body of the Electricity and Renewable Sector (URCA) is actually an arm of the government, attempting to be "impartial and fair", whilst being mandated or ignored by government corporations like bpl. urca cannot be fair to the public and fair to BPL. It must focus on what is in the best interests of the people, as the "Consumer Protection Agency" and forget that the people happen to have been saddled for decades with a debt laden, government run power company that can't provide reliable, quality, stable power. The people want BPL privatized so it can become profitable and not a 600 million dollar burden to the people. Get ready for the rate reduction bond being added to the BPL bill, because the public is responsible for how others mismanage their assets!

totherisingsun says...

If electricity were water, and this determination becomes law, it would be the same as the Water & Sewerage Corp forcing persons to sell the goverment their well water at 1/2 the cost that they buy their city water at, and not allowing them to drink their own well water because they would save too much on their water bill, and that wouldn't be fair! This determination that seeks to become renewable law, is absurd and robs the public of their solar energy and gives it to BPL. The public must contact URCA and object. (info@urcabahamas.bs)

totherisingsun says...

Dorian has set the new high water mark. Unless we employ dutch experts to build levys and sophisticated pumping systems at astronomical cost, dare we build in low lying swampland again? A house on 30 foot stilts is not safe either. What would have happened to adelaide, south beach, lake killarney and the LPIA airport? Have we done storm surge modeling of Nassau? We have seen the new reality and have been spared on the capital...When tthe next Cat5 comes what is the plan?

totherisingsun says...

If we eat less meat how will we throw our kfc boxes out the window? We cant stop littering and we want to solve the earths CO2 problem? The biggest contributors to pollution are the candy cane towers on the western end of the isle along with their complimentary fossil fuel slick flowing past our national park Goulding Cay around the corner. Who is the biggest polluter again?