Guyana Power & Light Inc

Corporate Profile

Name: Guyana Power and Light Incorporated

Registered Office:  40 Main Street, Georgetown, Guyana, South America

Vision: Guyana Power & Light, Inc. aims to be Guyana’s premier service provider, meeting and exceeding where possible the expectations of its stakeholders.

Mission statement: To provide an expanding customer base with electricity services which are technically, financially and environmentally sustainable, achieving best practice and acceptable international norms, delivered by our people performing in accordance with Company values to the highest ideals of work excellence and integrity.

Principal activities 

The principal activities of the GPL are to generate, transmit, distribute and sell electricity to the public.  GPL is a vertically integrated electric utility company.  The Company is the main provider of electricity in Guyana serving the majority of the population.

The primary objective of GPL is to provide its customers with a safe and reliable supply of electricity at a sustainable price and to expand its service to new customers located within its grid area.

Sustainability Programme 

The Company is required by law to establish a sustainability programme which is an annual and rolling five year plan that sets out in detail the plans and    projections through which GPL would achieve and sustain customer service, engineering and technical standards necessary for GPL’s efficient coordinated and economical supply of electricity, amounts other things. The sustainability programme, known as GPL’s Development and Expansion programme, documents the Company’s Strategic Plan which is also prepared on a five-year horizon the Plan outlines GPL’s strategic objectives which are  premised on seven areas of focus, these are:

• Optimize revenue
• Minimize cost of operations
• Improve Customer Service (CS)
• Achieve a sustainable financial position
• Enhance Corporate Governance Framework and Practices
• Enhancing Skills and Competencies of Employees and Contract workers
• Achieve national objectives