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Premier hopeful solar project on Anegada will be completed early 2025

Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has apologised to the people of Anegada for their recent power issues. Photo: GIS/File
The Government of the Virgin Islands, BVI Electricity Corporation (BVIEC) and US-based Power52 Clean Energy Access, who won the bid for the Anegada Hybrid Renewable Energy and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Project, broke ground back in December 2022 for the project; however, it has not yet materialised. Photo: VINO
The Government of the Virgin Islands, BVI Electricity Corporation (BVIEC) and US-based Power52 Clean Energy Access, who won the bid for the Anegada Hybrid Renewable Energy and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Project, broke ground back in December 2022 for the project; however, it has not yet materialised. Photo: VINO
FAT HOGS BAY, Tortola, VI- Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has apologised to the people of Anegada for their recent power issues.

He is; however, hopeful the electricity woes will end in early 2025 with the completion of the Anegada Hybrid Renewable Energy and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Project.

“We are doing a renewable energy project over in Anegada and part of the reason why  that renewable project is happening is to provide more stability as it pertains to electricity and of course to be better to the environment...

“Hopefully we can see that project come to completion very soon, hopefully early 2025 and the electricity woes over there will be a thing of the past,” Premier Wheatley stated on Tola Radio VI today, September 19, 2024.

The Government of the Virgin Islands, BVI Electricity Corporation (BVIEC) and US-based Power52 Clean Energy Access, who won the bid for the project, broke ground back in December 2022 for the project; however, it has not yet materialised.

The Government of the Virgin Islands has yet to give a detailed update on why the project has not yet been completed.

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16 Responses to “Premier hopeful solar project on Anegada will be completed early 2025”

  • jack (19/09/2024, 20:48) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
    Why is leroy Abraham in the photo,didn't he resign from bviec last year?
  • Hopeful???? (19/09/2024, 21:08) Like (11) Dislike (0) Reply
    That’s, it just Hopeful???????
  • Ripped off (19/09/2024, 22:20) Like (26) Dislike (0) Reply
    Ayo got conned!
  • mad max (20/09/2024, 05:31) Like (12) Dislike (0) Reply
    Solar always mentioned as a solution after outages - then quickly forgotten again by the powers to be. These successive governments are only talk, talk, talk - no progress at all
    • smh (20/09/2024, 09:51) Like (6) Dislike (0) Reply
      I agree for decades all these greedy ministers and dem friends have the BVI behind.
  • John (20/09/2024, 06:13) Like (7) Dislike (6) Reply
    Good job premier keep it moving
  • @ripped off (20/09/2024, 07:50) Like (11) Dislike (0) Reply
    You are so correct, the company they give the contract to over their own BVI company done robbed the money and bust off..
  • resident (20/09/2024, 09:07) Like (8) Dislike (0) Reply
    anyone who can google knows that company is a scam, this project will be the new bvi airways
  • Wellsah (20/09/2024, 13:26) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    I hope for a lot of things too but he's in a position to make hopes into reality and not.
  • Ray Lewis (20/09/2024, 13:30) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    They got an nfl fake front company invoking the former Baltimore mayor. They have no local expense and passed up on local companies owned by belonged like ATEC.
    • hm (20/09/2024, 17:00) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      associated with that why woman that came after the hurricanes who now own that private luxury wellness retreat?
  • sunny day (20/09/2024, 15:24) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Be careful where those solar panels come from. We dont want any exploding panels when those people are ready for a solar beam.
  • Ray Lewis??? (20/09/2024, 19:32) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Didn’t Ray Lewis have something to do with the Solar Company?
  • Funny (20/09/2024, 20:13) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    it was supposed to be online by December the same month as the new generator is due to arrive pmsl
  • Eldread (22/09/2024, 20:00) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Premiere Wheatley don't let theses sales people fool you, the solar panels won't power Anegorda, it will just compliment the generator during surges and short circuit s, it will not retire the diesel generator.


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