{"id":29707,"date":"2026-04-30T20:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=29707"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:11:05","slug":"21-region-ten-women-trained-in-solar-energy-under-guysol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/21-region-ten-women-trained-in-solar-energy-under-guysol\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Region Ten women trained in solar energy under GUYSOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>-by Nakasia Logan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty-one women from Region 10 have successfully completed specialised training\u00a0in renewable energy to the Guyana utility-scale solar photovoltaic program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The five-week course held at the Linden Technical Institute equipped participants\u00a0with practical hands-on skills for the growing solar energy sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants described the training engaging and impactful,\u00a0with lessons ranging from system installation to calculating wire sizes and costing solar setups.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I learned how to connect a system, a PV system, and that is great for me,&#8221; said Wynette Richards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kavasha Shipley told NCN, &#8220;Well, the training was interesting, it was engaging,\u00a0it allowed me to learn about a set of new things like calculating,\u00a0taking into consideration different wire sizes that are needed for certain components,&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was way easier than I thought, and the lecturers were great,&#8221; Shannia Richardson said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plans are already in place to involve the women in upcoming projects,\u00a0including the Linden solar farm, giving them valuable field experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GUYSOL programme, led by Guyana Power and Light Inc.,\u00a0forms part of Guyana&#8217;s push towards renewable energy and inclusive development,\u00a0with a focus on building local capacity and increasing women&#8217;s participation in the energy\u00a0sector.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-by Nakasia Logan Twenty-one women from Region 10 have successfully completed specialised training\u00a0in renewable energy to the Guyana utility-scale solar photovoltaic program. The five-week course held at the Linden Technical&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,470,360,350],"tags":[488,841,558,370,559,412,405],"class_list":["post-29707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-economy","category-education","category-energy","category-news","tag-488","tag-electricity","tag-gpl","tag-guyana","tag-guysol","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29707","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29709,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29707\/revisions\/29709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}