A team from Agrekko-Caribbean is currently in Dominica on a six-month contract to assist Dominica Electricity Services Limited (DOMLEC) in ensuring that a reliable electricity supply is provided to the country.
The team is being led by the Business Development Manager of Agrekko, Nigel Hosein.
DOMLEC has entered into a rental agreement with Aggreko, a generator rental firm to lease two units generating three megawatts of electricity. The units arrived on the island on Friday, November 10 and the commissioning process began on Sunday (November 26).
“We are here on our initial six-months contract duration and what we do, we provide guaranteed power, so we will actually have supervisory personnel working together with DOMLEC personnel who operate and maintain that plant for that contract duration to ensure that you have that 3-megawatts of reliable power,” Hosein said while delivering remarks at a press conference held this week.
According to him, Agrekko is pleased to be offering this assistance to DOMLEC and by extension the customers and people of Dominica.
“It is something that we do, it is part of our core-business,” he stated. “We are a global company with over 6000 employees headquartered in Scotland, but we have been doing a lot of work in the Caribbean for the past 20 years.”
Hosein said the company provides, particularly for the Caribbean region emergency power generation solutions, “so when DOMLEC came to us, it’s part of what we do and what we know, so we were more than pleased to provide that assistance.”
He indicated that Agrekko is also in the business of providing medium and long-term solutions.
“We are more than happy to speak further with the DOMLEC management team on how we can assist in the medium term until you get that long-term 10-megawatt geothermal plant in place,” Hosein noted. “Apart from diesel, we can do natural gas, LPG, etc.”
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DNO how could I want you to be biased when exactly that is what you are. Review all your articles. Any frequent reader of your articles could easily conclude that you are in collusion with the corrupt government.
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You are just hypersensitive. Grow up!
I know you will hide this comment. I am entitled to my opinion. Let free speech reign. Time to stop the censorship. I dare you to publish this then respond. Ban me if you want for that is what you desire. No problem! What you do mostly is to copy and paste articles sent to you. Challenge the veracity sometimes man.
ADMIN: Dear Ibo,
We value feedback but we also understand what you are doing in attempting to defame and smear our team on our own website and so we have removed the more defamatory parts of your comment as we would for any commenter.
You accuse us not just of bias but of colluding with the government because of a superficial appeal to count the number of government stories on our site.
We have explained before that the government simply generates more news as one would expect of the single largest entity in our country.
People (you included) want to know what the government or Prime Minister in particular is doing.
Just as with government we are quick to publish new stories or releases from the opposition parties whenever we can contact or receive correspondence from them such as this one: https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/international-news/uwp-president-bashes-pm-skerrit-for-response-on-dominicas-cbi-program-investigation/ and this https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/sports/dfp-statement-dominicas-missed-world-cup-opportunity-a-nation-in-crisis/
You routinely throw ad hominem attacks at us such as saying we are overly sensitive and need to grow up.
Yet from our perspective you are the most sensitive commenter on this site. We receive criticism regularly but no one responds as often and as vitriolically as you do particularly when we moderate or delete your comments.
As for growing up, most healthy adults in a free society understand that they cannot dictate to other adults what they must do; they must make a request usually offering something of value in exchange.
This is one of the reasons most commenters complain and then adjust their position when we address their concerns.
They will still criticize (which we welcome) but they adjust and incorporate new information including some of the most passionate and prolific commenters such as Francisco or (believe it or not) Man Bites Dogs/Lin Clown.
In criticizing us or making their complaints known they generally choose not to devolve into ad hominem attacks, defamation or harassment as you predictably do.
We regularly publish criticism of us from various sources (including yours) so your claims about our supposed sensitivity comes across as disingenuous.
For this reason we believe you are projecting on to us (and perhaps others) your own behavior.
Agreed, you have the right to free expression and to form opinions but not an entitlement to your own facts. The same laws that enshrine your right to free speech also make abuse of that right (such as to defame others) a punishable offence under the law.
We simply delete defamatory comments.
For someone who is invested in posting on this site (you have the most comments by a significant margin) it is not a sensible strategy to resort to ad hominem attacks on our moderators.
Yet despite all this we do believe that free speech only matters if it applies to those we most vehemently disagree with. This is precisely why we have refused calls (including your own) to wholesale block commentaries or news that commenters disagree with.
Not because we agree with these commentaries or the statements in these news articles but because free speech applies not just to you but to everyone.
To this point, we have no intention of banning you on this site. If we did you would have already been banned.
However, you do need to adhere to our comment policy: https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/policies/#comment-policy
As long as you adhere your comments will be published if you do not they will be deleted and furthermore we will not respond.
You will take all of our attention if we let you.
For one, we simply do not have the time to respond this comprehensively to each of your comments.
Sincerely,
admin
I give credit to the Business Development Manager of Agrekko for stating that the 10-megawatt geothermal plant is a long term, and not a medium term solution.
And the way things go in Dominica, it may be very long term.
DNO just stop printing/publishing the script that is handed to you. Dig deeper to get more data so the Dominican people can be better informed.
One of the blatant omission is the cost of renting these generators. Bet your life this does not come cheaply. For how long would this rental arrangement last? The longer the more costly.
The more corrupt a government is, the harder it is to get information. Roosevelt operates a nocturnal enterprise. Good journalism is not easy. In fact, most things that come easily are no good. Let your readers know that you have tried tirelessly to get information on specific issues to no avail.
Many times the difference between a good government and a bad government is an active, probing press. Try to make that difference DNO. I don’t want you to be biased but it is imperative that you be thorough. We know your job has been made unsually difficult as this shady regime has an airtight alignment with lies.
ADMIN: We have been down this road many times.
This is not the first time you have switched to appeasement tactics when you have been challenged on your commenting behavior while ,notably, also being denied the ability to defame us.
9000 comments worth of examples on your part and many exchanges over the years speak loudly to the reality that you do want us to be biased – to have our articles primarily validate your views.
We have been for years and will continue to attempt to make a difference by providing facts in our articles (rather than pandering to any one view) but in a democracy the people choose who is in power and who remains in power by their continued support.
Recent attempts in the larger world to influence voting behavior in one direction by traditional media has arguably resulted in the opposite effect during elections.
We welcome accountability, however, you consistently shift the lion’s share of the responsibility and blame on to us and strongly suggest we can and must be the catalyst for change.
A catalyst only accelerates a process that is already occurring, ultimately the people (you, us and everyone) are the ones who must make the change.
Well done ADMIN.
With 9000 comments most likely empty words on every subject, and still expects you to circumvent the polls, he/she will soon have written 1000 books like Aristotle who claimed philosophy for the Greeks because he plagiarized/wrote on every thing.
can u imagine….domlec always in the news with all belly acking problems….but lights going up….imagine when the we have more minister doing absolutely nothing much….but they receiving big pay increase…. this country is really upside down eh….
poor DOMLEC
I was an employee once
Never experienced this on my watch
DOMLEC is not responsible to provide geothermal energy
There is a Dominica Geothermal Energy company responsible for that.
DOMLEC only has to have the system ready to deliver the energy through its transmission lines and other system components.
Skerrit and Vince have their responsibilities to fulfill that long term promise ………every election campaign there is a promise to deliver…………..duhhhhhhhh, Am am am, I……….
Hey👋, I support you but don’t just raise our rates to pay for things you can do yourselves, otherwise you won’t be in that job,, I assume.