Two months after the Government announced that the Gas-to-Energy project would have been completed by the first quarter of 2026, it has now readjusted that completion date with another delay.

Prime Minister Mark Phillips told the National Assembly’s Committee of Supply on Friday evening that the project is now expected to be completed by the end of the second quarter of 2026.

“The gas-to-energy project is slated for completion during the end of the second quarter of 2026 to be on the safe side”, the Prime Minister announced, after consulting with his Permanent Secretary Alfred King and the Head of the Guyana Power and Light Company, Kesh Nandlall.

The revelation came from the Prime Minister as he faced questions from Opposition Member of Parliament David Patterson over the additional billions of dollars sought by the Government for its electricity programme as part of a supplementary budget. Questioned about the percentage of work completed on the project, the Prime Minister said he was not in possession of that figure and would have to supply an answer at a later time.

The Government sought and was eventually granted an additional $28.7 Billion to support the project. Three months ago, more than $88 Billion was allocated to the energy sector to support the project and other projects attached to it.

Earlier the Prime Minister explained that there are several connections still to be completed ahead of the gas-to-energy project to link various parts of the country into the system that is being developed at Wales on the West Bank of Demerara.

The project was initially expected to be completed by mid-2025 and that was further delayed to the end of 2025, then it was announced in February that a new completion date was set for the first quarter of 2026. That new date has now been adjusted again to the end of the second quarter of 2026.

The Government has said that when completed, the project’s benefits will include a doubling of the country’s electricity generating capacity to meet growing demand and a reduction in the cost of generation, thereby enabling electricity prices paid by consumers to be cut by 50 per cent.

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