Today the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority, URCA, released the proposed guidelines for the approval of Renewable Energy Self-Generation Projects referred to as RESG projects. The consultation document pertains to small commercial and government owned projects and is in keeping with URCA’s mandate to promote the increased use of renewable energy in The Bahamas. Once approved and implemented, the guidelines will allow businesses and Government agencies to apply for and obtain URCA’s approval to install larger renewable generation systems with up to 1 megawatt capacity on their properties. The guidelines proposed by URCA include a detailed definition of an RESG…
The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (“URCA”) has published on its website, for comment, a Preliminary Determination on “Wholesale Fixed and Mobile Termination Rates for SMP Licensees” in The Bahamas. The document alerts stakeholders to URCA’s preferred approach for deriving cost-oriented rates for termination services in The Bahamas. Termination services are wholesale services that all operators providing voice or SMS messaging services must purchase from each other in order to allow their customers to communicate with customers on other public networks. For this reason, all Licensees who operate their own network infrastructure to provide fixed or mobile voice and messaging…
Today, URCA published its 2016 Annual Report and 2017 Annual Plan. An Oral Hearing to discuss said reports will be scheduled for a later date. The report can be downloaded by clicking on the PDF document below. Statement of Results - Draft Annual Plan 2017 URCA 2017 Annual Plan URCA 2016 Annual Report
MNP UPDATE The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA), is pleased to advise the public that Mobile Number Portability (MNP) is now a reality having been launched yesterday. Scores of consumers in The Bahamas were able to successfully ‘port’ their existing numbers between service providers yesterday morning. URCA was notified that around 12:20pm yesterday, the system began to experience some problems in that messages between operators were not delivered within the timeframes required and stipulated in the rules. The operators and third party clearing house are working to resolve the issues and we understand that ports are being processed normally.…
