“So we basically can’t build the link between Sophia, the Demerara/Berbice system, so the Berbice people basically cannot benefit from additional capacity which we want to put in Demerara. We can’t generate additional power by the end of this year.

We can’t link Berbice; and Demerara would run into trouble next year because we won’t have enough reliable capacity. So Demerara is affected; Berbice is in trouble because we can’t bring any improvement to them; the people in the Central Corentyne where we intended to build a new substation to improve power quality continue to suffer,” Dindyal lamented.
The new substation in South Georgetown, which was also halted, could have benefited consumers from Mandela Avenue to Water Street, between Hadfield Street all the way up to Rahaman’s Park on the East Bank, he added.
“The fact of the matter is the parties who are making these cuts; do they understand the stage to which these projects have progressed? And do they understand the implications for GPL? These things are basically out of ignorance. They might say it is a lack of information but it is just that they do not understand the information that they have. These things have no logic to them. I don’t know that any of these decisions are informed by a basic knowledge of what GPL is, and what we’re doing,” Dindyal declared.
Meanwhile, Chairman Winston Brassington noted that GPL has increased the number of its customers by 40,000, and he said that this increasing demand is the reason the power company has been building new generating plants.
In less than seven years, the revenue for GPL has gone from less than $19B to $29B, and this year it is looking at some $31B, Brassington said.
“In 2012, our total revenue was $29B. In 2011, it was $27.5B. In 2010, it was $26.5B. In 2009, it was $23.9B. In 2008, it was $22B and in 2007, it was $19.8B,” Brassington informed.