Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission
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Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) is the sole retailer of electricity
in Trinidad and Tobago
. It is responsible for the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the country's electrical transmission and distribution network. The utility supplies electric power to customers on both islands via a single interconnected grid. Electrical energy is widely been purchased, metered and feed into the national grid from independent power producer
s. These independent power producers are PowerGen giving a total of 1,344 MW
& Trinity Power giving 225 MW total. All power station
s within Trinidad & Tobago are fueled by hydrocarbon
s. It was formed in 1946 after the merger of independent companies. It supplies over a million residential, municipal, commercial and industrial customers.
In 2006, the United States-based Mirant Corporation facing a severe financial situation announced that part of Mirant's restructuring efforts includes the intent to sell off their part ownership of PowerGen. Following that announcement, the Government of Trinidad and Tobago placed the overall structure of T&TEC and PowerGen under review for future possible amalgamation between the two units. The companies T&TEC, Mirant and BP
currently owns 51%, 39% and 10% of the PowerGen company respectivelyhttp://www.mirant.com/our_business/where_we_work/trinidad_tobago.htm. Any possible termination of the Mirant stake, is seen as opportunity to simplify the structure and relationship between the T&TEC and PowerGen companies.
More recently in October 2009 the Cove Power Station owned by T&TEC and situated in smaller island of Tobago was put into operation. This 64 MW natural gas or diesel power plant will reduce transmission losses on electric power transmission underground marine cables between both islands. In addition to upgrading bulk power to Tobago previously provided by T&TEC’s old 21 MW Scarborough Power Station which only used diesel fuel.
Electricity
Electricity is a general term encompassing a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. These include many easily recognizable phenomena, such as lightning, static electricity, and the flow of electrical current in an electrical wire...
in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
. It is responsible for the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the country's electrical transmission and distribution network. The utility supplies electric power to customers on both islands via a single interconnected grid. Electrical energy is widely been purchased, metered and feed into the national grid from independent power producer
Independent Power Producer
An Independent Power Producer is an entity, which is not a public utility, but which owns facilities to generate electric power for sale to utilities and end users...
s. These independent power producers are PowerGen giving a total of 1,344 MW
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& Trinity Power giving 225 MW total. All power station
Power station
A power station is an industrial facility for the generation of electric energy....
s within Trinidad & Tobago are fueled by hydrocarbon
Hydrocarbon
In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon. Hydrocarbons from which one hydrogen atom has been removed are functional groups, called hydrocarbyls....
s. It was formed in 1946 after the merger of independent companies. It supplies over a million residential, municipal, commercial and industrial customers.
In 2006, the United States-based Mirant Corporation facing a severe financial situation announced that part of Mirant's restructuring efforts includes the intent to sell off their part ownership of PowerGen. Following that announcement, the Government of Trinidad and Tobago placed the overall structure of T&TEC and PowerGen under review for future possible amalgamation between the two units. The companies T&TEC, Mirant and BP
BP
BP p.l.c. is a global oil and gas company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest company in the world measured by revenues and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors"...
currently owns 51%, 39% and 10% of the PowerGen company respectivelyhttp://www.mirant.com/our_business/where_we_work/trinidad_tobago.htm. Any possible termination of the Mirant stake, is seen as opportunity to simplify the structure and relationship between the T&TEC and PowerGen companies.
More recently in October 2009 the Cove Power Station owned by T&TEC and situated in smaller island of Tobago was put into operation. This 64 MW natural gas or diesel power plant will reduce transmission losses on electric power transmission underground marine cables between both islands. In addition to upgrading bulk power to Tobago previously provided by T&TEC’s old 21 MW Scarborough Power Station which only used diesel fuel.