EDITORIAL - Two barrels of oil for a single bulb? - Commentary - Jamaica Gleaner - Wednesday | April 25, 2012

EDITORIAL - Two barrels of oil for a single bulb? - Commentary - Jamaica Gleaner - Wednesday | April 25, 2012: "Kelly Tomblin, the new CEO of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), the light and power company, has started well. Rather, in her first interview with this newspaper, she was soothing.

But neither empathy nor intent to soften the hardened image of the JPS will be enough. If JPS is to be a player in Jamaica's energy future, it has to be fully engaged in efforts for the efficient delivery of power to customers, which will require it to be a vastly more efficient operation.

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Put another way, it just won't do for the JPS to use two barrels of oil equivalent to generate the electricity to light a simple 100-watt incandescent bulb for a year. Nor can it be tolerated that more than 70 per cent of the fuel, mostly expensive oil, it consumes goes to waste, producing nothing."

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