{"id":13139,"date":"2023-10-09T15:12:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T15:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=13139"},"modified":"2023-10-09T15:12:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T15:12:57","slug":"government-to-launch-request-for-proposals-for-amaila-falls-hydropower-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/government-to-launch-request-for-proposals-for-amaila-falls-hydropower-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to Launch Request for Proposals for Amaila Falls Hydropower Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government of Guyana is taking significant steps towards the development of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project, with plans to issue a request for proposals in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This move comes as the country faces a series of blackouts due to limited generating capacity at the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) to meet the surging demand for power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">General Secretary of the People\u2019s Progressive Party, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, emphasized the importance of this project in diversifying the country&#8217;s energy sources beyond oil and gas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Jagdeo underscored the urgency of the Amaila Falls project, especially given the escalating demand for power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He suggested that if the previous administration had supported and invested in the project, the current energy supply challenges might not have occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The General Secretary also revealed that the technical groundwork for the request for proposals is underway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Amaila Falls Hydropower Project has been under consideration for over 15 years and is anticipated to generate 165 megawatts of electricity upon completion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April 2022, negotiations between China Railway First Group and the Guyana government faced an impasse after the Chinese state-owned company indicated its inability to construct the $700 million hydroelectricity station under a Build, Own, Operate and Transfer (BOOT) financing model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Reporting by Josiah Williams<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Guyana is taking significant steps towards the development of the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project, with plans to issue a request for proposals in the coming weeks. This&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13141,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139\/revisions\/13141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}