BELCO Wins CARILEC Best Performing Utility
Over 200 Electricity Utility Executives, Engineers and Vendors from 31 countries converged in Trinidad from July 28 – 31 for the 2013 CARILEC Engineering and Geographic Information Systems [GIS] Conference.
This is CARILEC’s premier technical forum for Engineers in power system planning and operation. This year’s conference was hosted under the theme “Building Synergies, Leveraging Technology”. Professor Brian Copeland, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, UWI, St. Augustine delivered the keynote address.
CARILEC also took the opportunity at this conference to present, for the second year, Benchmarking Awards to encourage regional electricity utilities to improve their efficiency, reliability, cost effectiveness and productivity as they strive to achieve regional best practice that mirrors international industry standards.
BELCO received the “Best Utility Award” based on a combination of performance in CARILEC’s new “Human Resources Benchmark Study”, plus performance in the traditional “Caribbean Benchmarking Study”. The Caribbean Benchmarking Study looks at the following four categories with respect to all member utility companies: [1] Electricity Generation, [2] Transmission & Distribution Services [in terms of efficiency, reliability, cost effectiveness, productivity], [3] Commercialisation Services [customer service, cost effectiveness, productivity] and [4] Safety [incident rate].
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Haaaaaaaaa, this is hilarious.
We all know BELCO is a monopolistic overpriced dinosaur. Can you imagine what the competition was like?
BELCO is a REGULATED INDUSTRY and cant raise prices as they wish…..too bad you dont know the facts
BELCO…run by GREED!
I guess none of the award givers ever got a BELCO bill…
Most expensive juice in the world….or do I stand corrected..LOL
And despite the krazy cost of belco they STILL don’t have our power grid protected underground…..we just hear excuses and more excuses…
How do you “award” a monopoly” the best of anything when NOTHING competes against you????
@Black Soil Read and understand the article, they are up against all of the CARILEC (Caribbean) utilities and they are rated on the following four categories with respect to all member utility companies: [1] Electricity Generation, [2] Transmission & Distribution Services [in terms of efficiency, reliability, cost effectiveness, productivity], [3] Commercialisation Services [customer service, cost effectiveness, productivity] and [4] Safety [incident rate].
Sincere congratulations to BELCO for a job well done. I suggest they celebrate by giving us all a discount (50% would be nice) on our August bills.
Looking forward to getting mine…
@black Soil…did you even read the above article…….i guess not by your comments……
Well done BELCO! Many Bermudians cannot appreciate the quality of service that you provide. Those that have lived in other islands in Caribbean know how disturbing it is to never know how long your power will actually be on. Brown-outs are a very regular occurrence there.
Can you imagine the uproar if your power was only on for 20 or even 22 hours a day.
Good job BELCO, keep the lights on!
So in terms of efficiency. Is BELCO using less fuel but charging the people more for what their saving? SMH