The
board
of
the
government-owned
St
Kitts
Electricity
Company
(Skelec)
—
which
since
August
2011
has
been
run
by
a
private
firm
called
COMS
—
said
there
was
no
justification
for
COMS’s
proposal
to
replace
old
diesel
generators
with
new
ones
and
disregard
renewables.
The
5.4MW
Belle
Vue
wind
farm
would
be
among
the
projects
not
moving
forward,
despite
developer
North
Star
having
secured
a
long-term
power-purchase
agreement
(PPA)
with
the
government,
and
a
$16.5m
loan
from
the
US
Overseas
Project
Investment
Corporation.
Skelec’s
chief
technology
officer,
John
Krupski,…
