With the BVI Electricity Corporation struggling with limited generating capacity, government will hire the United Kingdom-based firm Agrekko to provide power to the planned Biwater desalination plant in Paraquita Bay, officials announced Tuesday during a separate contract-signing ceremony at the BVI Electricity Corporation’s Long Bush offices.
The arrangement is designed to help the government meet the requirements laid out in its contract with Biwater.
“Based on the deficit in generating capacity we have at present, ultimately a decision was taken to supply Biwater off-grid,” BVIEC General Manager Leroy Abraham said Tuesday.
The generating station was designed by the BVIEC, Mr. Abraham said, but given that the water plant will need some three megawatts of power — 10 percent of the territory’s full peak consumption of 30 megawatts — the corporation won’t be able to put Biwater on the grid until “all our I’s are dotted and our T’s are crossed with regards to our expansion.”
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