10,000 more solar panels due for hinterland energy project

The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs (MoAA) will be pushing ahead with its Hinterland Electrification Project in 2012 with 10,000 more solar panels expected in the country within the first quarter of the new year.

Minister of Amerindian Affairs Pauline Sukhai yesterday indicated that the continuation the project is one of the priorities of her ministry in the new year. In the final quarter of this year, the ministry was able to install 1,000 65-watt solar panels in communities across the country.

While there has been a delay in the arrival of next batch of panels, Sukhai said that these are expected shortly after