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Samsung Unveils Digital Inverter

April 22, 2013 Webmaster

Alvin Javier Vanegas, sales executive for home appliances of Samsung Electronics, shows the Samsung digital inverter compressor refrigerator to Nariesha Murray (left), product supervisor of Unicomer Jamaica; Karen Gardener (right), sales manager – Samsung Electronics, Jamaica; and Ann-Marie Walters (second right), director of sales for Courts, at the launch of the digital inverter refrigerator at Courts Constant Spring on Thursday, April 18. – Rudolph Brown/Photographer

Keisha Hill, Gleaner Writer

With the high costs now associated with the use of electricity, consumers will now be happy to know that Samsung Electronics has unveiled in Jamaica a new refrigerator with a digital inverter that is guaranteed to save energy, automatically levels the power fluctuation, has more durability and a higher cooling performance to keep food in top condition.

The digital inverter increases energy efficiency by automatically choosing between five-speed RPM in response to cooling requirements. According to Alvin Vanegas, Samsung sales executive for home appliances, opening the door frequently or putting a plate of hot food in the refrigerator can create changes in temperature, but the digital inverter compressor reacts quickly to provide cool air to slow or speed, reducing energy consumption.

“In the same way that technology aims to prolong the life of the refrigerator, Samsung reinforces its commitment to the durability of its products, offering consumers a 10-year warranty on the compressor,” Vanegas said.

With the new combi fridge freezer, Samsung brings powerful technologcal innovations into the home, empowering families to get more out of their appliances and run their households more efficiently. Advanced technology in Samsung’s new refrigerator delivers an overall unique design, complemented by special features that work together to maximise space efficiency.

“It comes equipped with unique resources that provide convenient storage options and efficient use of space, including a sliding tray to store and get food easier and a compartment door which is longer and deeper for bottles,” Vanegas said.

The refrigerator also has:

Auto Ice Maker

Ice max or ice packs, depending on the model, offering two ice compartments.

LED light which is high in efficiency and better at illuminating the interior.

Sophisticated design of the door providing easy opening.

Water dispenser at a height that eliminates the need to tilt the body to use.

‘Moistfresh zone’ which controls the airflow to maintain optimum moisture, creating the perfect environment for storing fruits and vegetables.

‘Cool pack’ keeps the cold in the freezer for eight hours in case of power failure, preventing food from spoiling in the event of an ice-melt.

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Paulwell: JPS to source LNG

October 4, 2012 jrobinson

ENERGY Minister Phillip Paulwell says that the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo) will now be responsible for sourcing the Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) needed to fuel its new generation plant.

“We are very confident that with the tremendous international reach that Marubeni and East West Power (JPSCo parent company) have, they are quite capable of doing this on their own,” Paulwell told journalists at yesterday’s Jamaica House press briefing at the Office of the Prime Minister in Kingston.

He said the recent discussions in Japan resolved that JPSCo would be fully responsible for ensuring that the generation plant is properly fuelled.

He explained that the light and power company received a licence last year to establish 360 megawatts of new generation driven by natural gas. However, he said that the Government interceded and attempted to get the fuel to the plant by way of FSRU pipeline and LNG supply.

“JPSCo has now accepted full responsibility for that,” he declared.

As to concerns that JPSCo could be forced to use diesel if it is unable to source LNG, resulting in higher electricity costs, Paulwell said the issue was raised in the discussions.

“The intention now… is from day one that gas will be the fuel that will be used at this plant and the only time we should contemplate using diesel is in the event of a hurricane when you have to move out the FSRU unit for a couple days,” he said, adding that this has been accepted by JPSCo.

In relation to JPSCo’s guarantee that using LNG will result in lower electricity costs for consumers, Paulwell said that the Government

Government JPS LNG News Oil

LNG Project Lives

October 3, 2012 jrobinson

Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell – File

McPherse Thompson,

Government JPS LNG News Oil
EDITORIAL – Gov’t Must Come Clean On LNG

September 25, 2012 jrobinson

It is high time the Simpson Miller administration end the pussyfooting and come clean on the liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. For its policy-by-dribble is both confusing and confidence-draining and risks doing grave damage to the Jamaican economy.

First, let us place things into perspective. It is our view that alongside credible fiscal policies – which, hopefully, are being sorted out in current negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – energy is the potential economic game-changer for Jamaica.

With the domestic price of electricity at upwards of US$0.41 per kilowatt-hour, Jamaican firms are difficultly placed to effectively compete with hemispheric and global manufacturers and service providers. Indeed, the higher price of energy has been a significant contributor to this country’s long period of anaemic advance in GDP.

A substantial part of our problem, of course, is that the bulk of our electricity is generated by old, inefficient power plants that burn expensive oil. Changing the fuel mix, therefore, is a critical component towards reducing the cost of domestic energy.

Settled on natural gas

For more than a decade, Jamaican administrations have deliberated on the issue and appeared, in the end, to settle on natural gas as the fuel of choice.

It is largely against this backdrop that the former Jamaica Labour Party administration, after a badly compromised initial tender process that it was forced to overturn, called for new bids for an LNG storage and regasification facility to begin to give effect to the fuel-conversion programme. Months ago, it was announced that Samsung was the preferred bidder for that facility.

Previously, the Jamaica Public Service Company, an electricity generator and monopoly distributor of power, won the bid to establish a natural gas-burning, 480-megawatt power plant. The expectation was that with natural gas and enhanced efficiency, this facility would drive down the cost of power by a third – not sufficient, but a start.

This newspaper has always felt, and argued, that coal, and other fuels, ought to be part of the energy mix. Our primary concern is for the delivery of the cheapest power to afford the economy a fighting chance at competitiveness. At the same time, we want to be assured of a predictability of supply, starting with the fuel.

Project could be sidelined

Unfortunately, the Government‘s poor communications strategy is injecting grave uncertainty and potential partisan rancour into the discourse.

Dr Carlton Davis, the highly respected public servant who heads the Government’s energy task force, had hinted that the LNG project could be sidelined if the Samsung bid did not meet specific price points for the delivery of electricity. It has for weeks been leaking out that those price points, whatever they were, have not been met and that LNG might be abandoned.

What, precisely, this means remains unclear. We would, for instance, wish to be told frankly whether Jamaica can find no supplier of LNG – the price of which has risen on the back of demand in Asia despite the collapse of the price of natural gas in North America – at a cost that makes sense. Or whether it is other elements of the pricing of the project that don’t compute, and which party they relate to. Or, perhaps there is another approach to the project, including a mix with other fuels.

Uncertainty, ultimately, breeds apathy.

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Plan to shelve LNG project could result in job losses

September 25, 2012 Webmaster

Concern is mounting about the medium-term effects of a reported decision by the Government to change plans for the implementation of the multi-billion dollar liquefied natural gas, LNG, project.

Some members of the small business sector feel their operations will crumble if they continue to depend exclusively on the Jamaica Public Service Company, JPS, for electricity.

Chairman of the Energy Committee of the Medium Small and Micro -sized Enterprises, MSME, Alliance, Anthony Morgan, states that his members are in a state of limbo based on the report, and need clarification from the Government.

He explains that changes need to come soon or many jobs will be lost.

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Government JPS LNG News
Plan to shelve LNG project could result in job losses

September 25, 2012 jrobinson

Concern is mounting about the medium-term effects of a reported decision by the Government to change plans for the implementation of the multi-billion dollar liquefied natural gas, LNG, project.

Some members of the small business sector feel their operations will crumble if they continue to depend exclusively on the Jamaica Public Service Company, JPS, for electricity.

Chairman of the Energy Committee of the Medium Small and Micro -sized Enterprises, MSME, Alliance, Anthony Morgan, states that his members are in a state of limbo based on the report, and need clarification from the Government.

He explains that changes need to come soon or many jobs will be lost.

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Government JPS LNG News
Smell Of Death Hits LNG Idea

September 10, 2012 Webmaster

Paulwell

Gary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

There are clear indications that the long-proposed introduction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) into Jamaica’s energy mix could be abandoned.

It now seems certain that with the current price of LNG, the Government will not achieve the expected 30 to 40 per cent reduction in the cost of electricity to the Jamaican consumer, and that could lead to the death of the project which was first put on the table more than 10 years ago.

Last month, the head of the LNG Steering Committee, Dr Carlton Davis, told a

Government LNG News
Samsung Team To Visit Jamaica For LNG Talks

September 10, 2012 jrobinson

A team from South Korean company Samsung is to visit the island this week to hold talks with the government on its LNG project.

Samsung has emerged as the preferred bidder for the development and operation of the LNG floating storage and re-gasification terminal.

It is understood that Samsung has written to the Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell asking for a meeting with him and all the parties involved.

Paulwell has admitted that after three months, a formal deal is yet to be struck with Samsung.

He stressed that the negotiation is a process and the government is proceeding with caution.

The government had projected to introduce LNG by 2014 but there are doubts that this timeline may be achieved because the administration is yet to secure a supplier of the LNG.

There are also fears that the current cost of the fuel may prohibit the government from realising its aim of reducing the cost of electricity by 30 per cent.

Paulwell said he is awaiting the final report from the LNG steering committee, which is due this month.

He added that after reviewing the report, the government will indicate its position going forward.

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Government LNG News
Samsung Team To Visit Jamaica For LNG Talks

September 10, 2012 Webmaster

A team from South Korean company Samsung is to visit the island this week to hold talks with the government on its LNG project.

Samsung has emerged as the preferred bidder for the development and operation of the LNG floating storage and re-gasification terminal.

It is understood that Samsung has written to the Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell asking for a meeting with him and all the parties involved.

Paulwell has admitted that after three months, a formal deal is yet to be struck with Samsung.

He stressed that the negotiation is a process and the government is proceeding with caution.

The government had projected to introduce LNG by 2014 but there are doubts that this timeline may be achieved because the administration is yet to secure a supplier of the LNG.

There are also fears that the current cost of the fuel may prohibit the government from realising its aim of reducing the cost of electricity by 30 per cent.

Paulwell said he is awaiting the final report from the LNG steering committee, which is due this month.

He added that after reviewing the report, the government will indicate its position going forward.

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LNG UNCERTAINTY

August 20, 2012 jrobinson

Dr Carlton Davis, head of the LNG steering committee.Ian Allen / Photographer

Lower energy prices up in the air!

The Government‘s long-announced plan to introduce liquefied natural gas (LNG) as one measure to reduce electricity rates remains in limbo with no clear indication, when, or if, this will take place.

The proposed 2014 timeline will not be met and the man leading the process, Dr Carlton Davis, is not committing himself to a new timeline.

“We will soon know the full truth,” Davis told a recent Gleaner Editors’ Forum as he noted that the State is now ready to start negotiations with Samsung, which has been selected to construct the LNG infrastructure locally.

“We have just about completed the process of looking at the price quotations of the liquefied gas and within another couple of weeks we will determine whether the whole thing makes senses and if it makes sense how fast we move on it,” said Davis.

Under the original plan supported by successive administrations, LNG would be added to the country’s fuel mix, replacing oil to sharply reduce the country’s energy bill while lowering the price of electricity to consumers.

The plan was made on the assumption that the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) would construct a new 360 megawatts power plant in Old Harbour Bay, St Catherine, by 2014.

The JPS has indicated that the plant should be up and running by 2014, but recent concerns from potential financial partners have left a cloud around that project.

The company is also yet to say if it will proceed with the building of the new plant if the Government fails to deliver LNG.

price discussion

Last Thursday, the Government’s technical team reviewed the proposals for the supply of the gas and this week, the LNG steering committee will meet to discuss the price of the gas before making a recommendation to the Cabinet.

“We have the quotations for the infrastructure, we have the quotations for the price of the LNG … there are financial security issues … all these put together will give us a pretty good idea of where we are, then we will meet (and make a decision),” Davis told the Editors’ Forum.

“Issues as to whether we are going to abandon that path wholly or partially will be determined. The real question is whether the JPS will find the price that (the LNG) comes out to at a sufficient comfort level … to give the public a price of electricity that is much lower than they currently pay,” added Davis.

If LNG can be sourced at an acceptable price, the JPS could reduce the fuel cost to its customers by approximately 40 per cent.

According to Davis, “Circumstances will dictate where we go from here. As I said, in just a matter of days we will know what sort of game is on, if a game is on in a certain direction.”

However, despite the price concerns which could derail the project, Davis did not comment on the Government’s decision to select Samsung as its preferred bidder to do the LNG infrastructure when its offer was higher than the bid entered by EXMAR.

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