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Have we looked closely and genuinely at solar power as an alternative?

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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