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APUA’s General Manager and the Electricity Manager met with the government at their weekly cabinet meeting to discuss their findings as related to the cost of implementing additional generation capacity.<\/p>

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This additional generation capacity would be of renewable energy and is intended to be implemented at the APUA power facilities at Crabbes.<\/p>\n

The APUA contracted with a consultant firm called Federal Capital that has experience in costing various energy-types and ascertaining their output, to cost renewable energy\u2014such as solar, wind and other renewables\u2014as against heavy fuel oils (HFOs).<\/p>

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According to Chief of Staff Lionel Hurst, the APUA representatives informed the government that renewable energy systems, though declining in cost, remain a pricey alternative, especially because of the batteries required to store the electricity.<\/p>

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There are two kinds of batteries. Type A, called intermittent supply type, is utilized to bring stability to the output of the solar farm when the sun is obscured by clouds and the output of the plant inexorably falls. Type B is used for storage when the sun shines, and to supply power at nights when there is no sunlight at all. They are distinctly different and are controlled by different computer systems.<\/p>\n

The APUA representatives proposed a change to liquid natural gas (LNG) or liquid propane gas (LPG) in place of the heavy fuel oil (HFO) that is currently consumed by the power plants that provide electricity.<\/p>

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The growth in the economy has caused the peak energy consumption of electricity to rise from 51 megawatts in 2014 to 59 megawatts today; given projections of further economic growth, the peak supply will rise to 67 megawatts or more in APUA\u2019s 20-year projection.<\/p>\n

Members of government including the Minister of the Environment and the Chief Environment Officer questioned the accuracy of the figures presented by the consultants.<\/p>

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As such the government requested that additional and comparative costs be presented to Cabinet in a week or two.<\/p>

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