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