Sep 6 recorded as highest day ever for local electricity consumption

Akash Sama­roo

Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) gen­er­al man­ag­er Ian Ram­rat­tan is as­sur­ing cus­tomers that there has been no in­crease in res­i­den­tial elec­tric­i­ty rates, as mount­ing com­plaints emerge from cit­i­zens re­port­ing sig­nif­i­cant in­creas­es in their elec­tric­i­ty bills.

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Ram­rat­tan says the high­er bills are large­ly be­ing dri­ven by in­creased elec­tric­i­ty con­sump­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly the use of air-con­di­tion­ing units dur­ing the re­cent spell of un­usu­al­ly hot weath­er, which con­tributed to T&TEC record­ing its high­est-ever peak elec­tric­i­ty de­mand of ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1,487 megawatts on Sep­tem­ber 6.