Quote Originally Posted by ljbd View Post
My gut feeling is that there is and has been oppostion and stonewalling politics at work to maintain the current monoply and thus making it extremely difficult for an alternate energy source to get a foothold.
Exactly !
The government would have to do 3 things for solar generation to make any sense and ALL of them simultaneously:
1. Abolish duty on solar equipment,
2. Abolish GCT on solar equip[ment,
3. Introduce net metering, so Jamaicans can sell excess of generated electricity at the same price they buy it.
Do you really think they would do it ? Do you ?
Wind generation is just an illusion [see Ontario's experience]. Huge capital expense and low return, you have to install output about 7 times greater than the one you can count on. Providing that there is frequent wind waaaay up there.