The Belize Electricity Limited has had a tumultuous year, what with load shedding, frequent and unpredictable power outages, and of course, criticisms from the public. As they recalibrate and prepare to face the projected droughts and heat waves of 2025, they want to reassure the public that they will be in a much better position next year. That is due in part to the upgrades made to the Westlake Gas Turbine and the fact that the San Pedro Gas Turbine is now on stream.
And today they held a media workshop where they outlined their short term plans as well as their expansion plans. Following the workshop, the Senior Corporate Communications Officer gave a brief overview of what exactly makes them better prepared come next year.
Emmanuel Pech, Sr. Corporate Communications Officer, BEL
"The purpose for having a media energy workshop was to build capacity and the knowledge, the technical and historical knowledge on the energy landscape. We understand the vital importance that our media partners play in informing our public about the energy landscape."
"So it's very important for us to have initiatives like this, where it's about engaging with our media partners, it's about informing them of the energy landscape and building that capacity to ensure that then you all in the media profession can better report, more accurately report and more efficiently report on energy related matters."
"We know that energy has been a topic, a heated topic in the media recently, particularly because of the year that we've had with all the challenges. But we want to reiterate that we remain optimistic that we will be able to meet our customers energy needs into 2025."
"Of course 2025 won't be without its challenges, but as you may have heard and as you will appreciate through the presentations, is that we have a plan and BEL today is in a much better position to meet our customers energy demands going into 2025."
"We have improved by 33 percent our in-country capacity and we continue to implement different initiatives to on the demand side management of things. As you may have heard, one of the projects we're working on is the replacement of street lights countrywide to LED and that was just one example of the initiatives that we're doing on demand side management. The other aspect of it is informing our customers with your help as well, the media, to we had an energy management activity that you guys were able to participate in and could have acknowledged how different small initiatives that small acts at home or the office can create a big impact in reducing your overall demand."
"So it's a combination of many things. BL has its plan. We are doing our part. And we also have the other side of it, which is the energy management side of it, where we seek out the assistance of you guys and media, the businesses and customers who also assist by practicing energy conservation and being more energy efficient."
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