Aug 17, 2026 Editorial, News

(Kaieteur News) – There is a ray of light creeping over the horizon. The first energy delivery from the Wales Gas-to-Energy (GtE) is expected by year-end. It would be a small tranche of energy, followed by more megawatts during 2027. This has been the GtE, a moving target, with one delivery date after another not being met. Nothing being said by the government until questioned persistently, only for citizens then to be told that the start date for the flow of power has shifted. Will the year-end promise come true? Will next year’s schedule of more energy to be delivered become reality?

According to Prime Minister Mark Phillips, 57 megawatts will be on stream by the end of this year. It is almost two years to the day past the first promised completion of the Wales GtE. From the prime minister’s own statement, only one sixth of the full 300 megawatts of power will be fed into the national system. A total of 228 megawatts is expected towards the end of 2027, three years after the original finish date. We note that 228 megawatts, though representative of a substantial amount of power, is still not the full indicated capacity of the Wales GtE. It seems that approximately 16 percent of that capacity will be generated by year end. We are already thinking of what will be the fate, what timeline it will be before for the rest of the energy is part of the national grid.