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Jul 28, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

The Editorial “Rebooting Amaila Falls Hydropower Project” (SN, 26th July 2021) says that the democratically elected PPP/C Government of Guyana is keen to embrace hydroelectricity and the natural gas (gas-to-shore pipeline project) to produce 465 megawatts of electricity. The cost of the hydroelectric scheme was about US$800M (but would have risen by now). The cost of the gas-to-shore pipeline project is about US$900M. This gives a total cost of US$1700M to provide 465 megawatts of electricity (it is unclear if the cost of the gas-to-shore pipeline project includes the cost of generating 300 megawatts of electricity).
Has the democratically elected PPP/C government looked closely at SOLAR ELECTRICITY where the cost of 500 megawatts of solar electricity would be in the region of US$1000M? Plus, we can build 50 times 10 megawatt solar farms to de-risk. We can certainly build, as a priority, a 10-megawatt solar farm so that we can assess the viability of solar electricity as an alternative. The cost would be about US$20M.
Is the PPP/C government seriously considering spending 25 percent of Guyana’s GDP on hydropower and gas-to-shore pipeline when we could be spending far less on solar electricity?

Yours faithfully,
Sean Ori

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