Solar power can be an “easy entry point” for alternative energy in Guyana, according to Presidential Adviser on the Environment Gary Best but at least one environmentalist has argued that the backbone of the country’s renewable energy needs should be hydropower.
At a European Union (EU) sponsored panel discussion on climate change on Thursday, Best said that he was not “anti-hydro” but if solar plants are attached to existing fossil fuel-based power plants, costs could be reduced. He said while hydropower can be considered, an “easy entry point is going photovoltaic, going solar.”
According to Best, the administration intends to create a green economy and Bartica would be used as a model.
