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Aerial view of Bermuda island

At BELCO, we are acutely aware that our electricity retiring old engines; making internal practices and
costs are too high and financially burdensome for efficiencies more sustainable; moving to an entirely
our customers. Our goal is to not only bring down electric commercial fleet; upgrading our transmission
the price for energy but to massively reduce our and distribution network and continuing to build
environmental impact and carbon footprint by upon what we learned when we brought our large-
phasing out the use of fossil fuels as we add more scale Battery Energy Storage System online.
renewable energy sources to our energy mix. I
am confident that with the highly qualified staff at As we move toward achieving our goal of generating
BELCO, in partnership with our parent company, we 100% of our energy needs from renewable sources,
can achieve these ambitious goals.

Last year BELCO established the Bermuda-100 (“B-
100”) team – a team dedicated to furthering the
company’s alignment with Bermuda's goal to achieve Last year BELCO established the
100% renewable energy for Bermuda. The B-100 Bermuda-100 (“B-100”) team –
team are doing critically important work exploring a team dedicated to furthering
all renewable energy options available to provide the company’s alignment with
reliable, cost-effective electricity for our customers. Bermuda's goal to achieve 100%
renewable energy for Bermuda.
While we analyse the options for economical, large-
scale, renewable power, we are laying the foundation
to support Bermuda's transition, which includes

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