{"id":26918,"date":"2012-10-15T08:59:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T12:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=26918"},"modified":"2012-10-15T09:22:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T13:22:19","slug":"talks-to-lower-electricity-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/10\/talks-to-lower-electricity-costs","title":{"rendered":"Talks To Lower Electricity Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26926\" title=\"genting-energy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/genting-energy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/genting-energy.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/genting-energy-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/genting-energy-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/>The Genting Energy Group is talking with the government about how to lower electricity costs for Bahamians.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference following a meeting with Prime Minister Perry Christie, Genting CEO TS Ong said the company will begin assessing both the fuel and equipment used by the Bahamas Electricity Corporation to generate power.<\/p>\n<p>The Malaysian multinational will conduct a three month study into power generation, then report its findings to the government.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Christie has said he wants to lower the cost of electricity to consumers by 30 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Caption: GENTING ENERGY \u2013 Officials from Genting Energy are pictured with the Minister for Grand Bahama Dr. Michael Darville, and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry for G.B. Melvin Seymour, during a courtesy call at the Ministry for Grand Bahama on Wednesday morning. The Malaysia- based energy company is here to carry out a feasibility study which will help to guide the government in finding ways to reduce electricity cost. (BIS Photo \/ Simon Lewis)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Genting Energy Group will perform a 3-month study with the goal of finding ways to reduce electricity costs, possibly by as much as 30 per cent.<\/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":[12],"tags":[90,202],"class_list":["post-26918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-bec","tag-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26918","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=26918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}