UK-Based Power Titan Wants To Help Guyana Become Premier Industrial Hub With Fool-Proof Metering System, Other Reforms At GPL

• UK-Based InterEnergy, one of the largest private sector power operators in the Dominican Republic (DR), is eager to help Guyana become a premier industrial hub for the region through key reforms at the country’s publicly owned utility company, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL).

• According to InterEnergy’s CEO, Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster, InterEnergy, which is also active in Panama, Chile, Jamaica and Uruguay, can arm GPL with a game-changing metering system. 

• CEPM is the crown jewel of InterEnergy’s chain of businesses, and the only electricity distribution company where 100% of its customers are managed through remote metering. Remote metering gives customers real-time access to their energy consumption data and easy migration from prepaid to postpaid contracts.

• Additionally, the application would use sophisticated software and smart meters to provide customers with forecasts on temperature and power consumption in a given month. Once installed there would be no need for meter readers and customers could monitor consumption via a smartphone application.

• Following the recent signing of a cooperation agreement with GPL, the CEO said his team of engineers and specialists have been instructed to fast-track a proposal on the technological advancements and investments from which the Guyanese utility company can benefit. 

• Given the significant economic growth Guyana is expected to experience once it has six oil ships in operation by 2027, the CEO said the country will need more energy investments.

(Source: Oil Now)