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RA Public Consultation: Offshore Wind Farm
As part of the next steps for Bermuda’s Integrated Resource Plan [IRP], the Regulatory Authority [RA], is “exploring new sources of clean energy in the form of an offshore wind farm and is inviting the public to hear about the preliminary results prior to making a decision.” Nigel Burgess, Acting Chief Executive at the RA said; “The... Read more of this article
RA Releases Electronic Communications Review
The Regulatory Authority of Bermuda issues its Electronic Communications Sectoral Review report. The report notes, “The RA published this Consultation Document initiating a comprehensive review of the Electronic Communications Sector, including all applicable policies, legislation, regulations and administrative determinations.” The full... Read more of this article
RA Comment On Digicel/BTC Network Outage
The Regulatory Authority [RA] noted they are “aware of the island wide outage to Digicel/BTC’s fixed telephony network” — which resulted in landlines, including the 911 number, being unoperational for a few hours — and noted that Digicel/BTC “complied with the standard outage reporting requirements. ” A spokesperson... Read more of this article
‘RA Cannot Set Standards For Emissions’
The Regulatory Authority [RA] said they “would like to bring clarity to recent public assertions, that it is responsible for the regulation of environmental emissions in the local community” noting that “by law, the RA cannot set standards for, supervise, or monitor environmental emissions.” A spokesperson said, “The RA is... Read more of this article
Regulatory Authority Statement On Power Outage
“Such a national inconvenience is never a good thing and the best that can be done now is to use what transpired to reduce the risk of future events,” the Regulatory Authority said following the island-wide power outage on Friday. The Regulatory Authority [Chief Executive Abayomi Carmichael said, “On Friday afternoon, every Bermuda... Read more of this article
Regulatory Authority 2022-23 Activity Report
The Regulatory Authority of Bermuda has published their Activity Report for the period April 1 to September 30, 2022, which states that “the purpose of this document is to report on the progress of activities of the Regulatory Authority of Bermuda [RA] for the electricity and electronic communications sectors for the fiscal year 2022-23.” As far... Read more of this article
RA Market Review: Electronic Communications
The Regulatory Authority of Bermuda published the findings of its “Market Review: A high-level snapshot of the economic contribution of the electronic communications sector [EC] sector in Bermuda, which includes fixed network market, mobile sector, broadband market, and business connectivity.” The Market Review covers topics such as: Employment:... Read more of this article
Bermuda RA Appoint Abayomi Carmichael
The Board of Commissioners of the Regulatory Authority of Bermuda [RA] announced that effective January 1, 2023, Mr. Abayomi Carmichael will assume the role of Chief Executive of the RA. A spokesperson said, “Mr. Carmichael’s key competencies and expertise will assist the RA in its current and future needs to meet both its statutory and additional... Read more of this article
RA Invites Feedback On Retail Tariff Design
The Regulatory Authority [RA] is inviting the public and other interested parties to comment on its proposed Retail Tariff policies. 1. Retail Tariff Design Restructuring Report A spokesperson said, “The evolving electricity sector has prompted the RA to consider whether there are better ways to represent a customer’s total electricity cost for:... Read more of this article
Minister Supports RA’s Fuel Adjustment Rate
“The high cost of electricity is a challenge to all of Bermuda”, said the Minister of Home Affairs Walter Roban. “And so the Ministry of Home Affairs fully supports the Regulatory Authority’s [RA] recent decision and announcement that effective October 1, the fuel adjustment rate [FAR] has been reduced by just over 16% to $0.16874/kWh from... Read more of this article
RA Invite Feedback On Proposed Methodologies
The Regulatory Authority is inviting the public and other interested parties to comment on proposed methodologies under consideration for calculating the Feed-in Tariff [FiT]. A spokesperson said, “The FiT is the pre-determined rate at which renewable energy is purchased by BELCO from residential or commercial distributed generators [“DGs”],... Read more of this article
RA: Proposed Work Plan For Public Consultation
The Regulatory Authority [RA] has released its proposed Work Plan for 2023-24 for public consultation A spokesperson said, “The Work Plan sets out the major activities that the RA intends to conduct during the fiscal year 2023-24. The Public Consultation document can be found under “Open Consultations” on the RA’s website: www.ra.bm/public-consultations.... Read more of this article
