En­er­gy ex­pert Gre­go­ry McGuire has de­scribed plans re­gard­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy sec­tor as out­lined in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) man­i­festo, as for­ward-look­ing in terms of its fo­cus but felt that key ar­eas for na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment were not ad­dressed.

Among the promis­es in the 180-page doc­u­ment was an ini­tia­tive to bal­ance do­mes­tic en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty with ex­port com­pet­i­tive­ness, en­sur­ing sus­tain­able gas pro­duc­tion, sup­ply chain ef­fi­cien­cy, do­mes­tic petro­chem­i­cal pro­duc­tion, and Liqui­fied Nat­ur­al Gas (LNG) ex­port ca­pac­i­ty and in­fra­struc­ture, with sta­ble sup­ply, com­pet­i­tive pric­ing, and in­creased lo­cal val­ue-added be­fore ex­port.

The PNM is al­so promis­ing to up­grade ex­ist­ing na­tion­al pow­er gen­er­a­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion in­fra­struc­ture with clean­er, more ef­fi­cient tech­nolo­gies, and to de­vel­op and im­ple­ment a na­tion­al reg­u­la­to­ry and in­fra­struc­ture frame­work to sup­port in­te­gra­tion of re­new­able en­er­gy gen­er­at­ed by house­holds and busi­ness­es in­to the na­tion­al grid.