New company managing Wartsila engines pledges quality performance

Arron Fraser

The local company now managing 16 Wartsila engines with a total capacity of 104 MWs is assuring the public that it is up to the task and can deliver the same type of performance as the previous Finnish-owned enterprise.

With Power Producers and Distributors Inc (PPDI) projecting savings of more than US$2 million a year, the CEO of the state-owned company, Arron Fraser says that they will be looking to use some of the money to become an Independent Power Producer (IPP) in the future.

Speaking to Stabroek News during a recent, exclusive interview, Fraser, who had been at the previous company, Wartsila Operations Guyana Inc, since 1998, where he started at an entry level position before eventually taking the helm of the company in 2009, said that the decision by the government to