Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries Stu­art Young yes­ter­day met with Fran­cis Mann, Light­source bp De­vel­op­ment Man­ag­er, UK and Trinidad & To­ba­go to dis­cuss the cur­rent sta­tus of Project Lara where the par­ties cur­rent­ly in­volved are in the fi­nal­i­sa­tion of the com­mer­cial agree­ment for this project.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the En­er­gy Min­istry yes­ter­day, dis­cus­sions al­so sur­round­ed the com­ple­tion and ex­e­cu­tion of the doc­u­men­ta­tion by the end of this month.

Project Lara is a joint ven­ture com­prised of mul­ti-na­tion­al en­er­gy gi­ants bp and Shell, and spe­cial­ist so­lar en­er­gy com­pa­ny Light­source bp.

“The project will be con­struct­ed at two sites in both Brechin Cas­tle, near the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate and in Or­ange Grove, near Trinci­ty. The two sites will have a com­bined ca­pac­i­ty to gen­er­ate a to­tal of 112.2 mw of so­lar elec­tric­i­ty, more than the to­tal gen­er­at­ing ca­pac­i­ty of most is­lands in the East­ern Caribbean,” the re­lease stat­ed.

“The Gov­ern­ment of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go through the work of Min­is­ter Young and the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries re­mains com­mit­ted in its pur­suit of the use of re­new­ables in the en­er­gy mix. The in­te­gra­tion of more so­lar projects al­lows Trinidad and To­ba­go to do its part to­wards glob­al Green­house Gas Re­duc­tion,” it stat­ed.

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