‘Share the financial burden of storage’

The electricity grid has to be protected from instability, but customers of Barbados Light & Power Company Limited (BL&P) must not be made to carry the heaviest part of the financial burden likely from the proposed battery energy storage systems (BESS). 

That is the position of Ricky Went, an intervenor in several BL&P matters before the Fair Trading Commission (FTC), including the utility’s Application For Preapproval Of Investments And Cost Recovery Through The Clean Energy Transition Rider (CETR).