{"id":24259,"date":"2012-08-01T09:31:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T13:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=24259"},"modified":"2012-08-01T09:31:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T13:31:45","slug":"energy-firm-delay-forces-baha-mar-to-plan-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/08\/energy-firm-delay-forces-baha-mar-to-plan-b","title":{"rendered":"Energy Firm Delay Forces Baha Mar To Plan B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24260\" title=\"bahamar-development\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bahamar-development.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bahamar-development.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bahamar-development-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bahamar-development-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Plans to reduce Baha Mar\u2019s air conditioning-related energy demand by 90 per cent have been thrown into severe jeopardy, the $2.6 billion resort developer confirming it had moved \u201con to Plan B\u201d after a renewable energy firm failed to meet agreed timelines.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Sands, Baha Mar\u2019s senior vice-president of external and governmental affairs, said Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation\u2019s (OTEC) failure to meet a pre-determined timetable for its $102.3 million Seawater District Cooling (SDC) system meant the developer had been forced back to looking at \u201ctraditional forms\u201d of air conditioning (AC) cooling.<\/p>\n<p>Baha Mar executives were concerned that delays in obtaining all the necessary government approvals for the OTEC project could prevent the SDC plant from fitting in with the $2.6 billion project\u2019s construction schedule, throwing this off and delaying the planned December 2014 resort campus opening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baha Mar has moved to &#8220;plan B&#8221; after its original plan to reduce air conditioning-related energy demand by 90 per cent was jeopardized by a timeline delay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27,24,118,202,166],"class_list":["post-24259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-baha-mar","tag-construction","tag-development","tag-energy","tag-environmental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}