Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Phillip Paulwell, says the Government is intent on transforming the way electricity is distributed island wide with a view to ensuring competition in the generation and distribution of the utility.
“We are intent on transforming the way electricity is distributed and that will resolve in a win-win for all because the fact of the matter is that we are seeing scores of people looking for opportunities outside of Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo),” he said.
This was disclosed by Minister Paulwell recently during an interview on the Jamaica Information Service’s (JIS) Issues and Answers programme with Mr. Ian Boyne.
Mr. Paulwell said the Government is exploring efforts towards greater competition to ensure that consumers can be beneficial in the long run.
“There is an overriding feature of our energy system that we are focused on and that has to do with the distribution of energy because having achieved competition on the generation side, we recognise that that competition has been rather limited because of how the rest of the system is structured so we are pursuing an effort now towards greater competition and we are quite aware that those are delicate negotiations that will have to be pursued but we believe that we have a win-win scenario recognising the government has a vested interest in the JPS as well,” he said.
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