JAMAICA-ENERGY-Cuba to provide expertise in local manufacture of solar panels
Jul 08, 2013
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Jamaica will partner with Cuba to facilitate the local manufacture and assembly of cost effective solar light panels.
This undertaking forms part of the administration’s move towards incorporating renewable alternatives into the local energy mix in order to reduce the country’s huge energy bill.
Energy Minister, Phillip Paulwell, who made the disclosure during the ceremonial switching on of lights in the communities of New Forest and Plumwood in the central parish of Manchester last week said that the Rural Electrification Programme (REP) Limited will guide the process.
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