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sector. According to these figures, hotels and supermarkets would have consumed 48.622 GWh of energy
in 2009.
Table 4.2.1: Electricity sales for PPC by sector, 2009
Sector MWh %
Residential 50,242 31.1
Commercial 42,488 26.3
Large hotel 27,141 16.8
Small hotel/supermarket 21,486 13.3
Water Co. 10,501 6.5
Club Med. 5,008 3.1
Government 2,908 1.8
Streetlights 1,292 0.8
Pine Cay 485 0.3
Total 161,551 100
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(Source: Castalia, 2011)
TCU serves over 2,200 customers and has two diesel-fired plants with a total installed capacity of
11.043 MW (Grand Turk has 10.3 MW and Salt Cay has 0.3 MW). The estimated peak demand is 4.5 MW.
The relative lack of hotels means that residential and commercial customers represent the largest
consumers, although given that the seat of government is on Grand Turk, they are also a significant
customer (18% which, coupled with RO Units, reaches 25%), Table 4.2.2 (Castalia, 2011).
Table 4.2.2: Electricity sales for TCU by sector, 2009
Sector MWh %
Residential 7,632 38.6
Commercial 7,057 35.7
Government 3,493 17.7
Reverse Osmosis Units 1,417 7.2
Streetlights 161 0.8
Total 19,760 100
(Source: Castalia, 2011)
As indicated in the introduction, tourism’s overall contribution to the Turks and Caicos economy is
estimated to be in the order of 29 and 40% of GDP in the period 1995-2005(CDB, 2006), and preliminary
data for 2007 puts the contribution from the hotel and restaurant sub-sector at 29% (DEPS, 2009). In the
absence of detailed data on fuel use in tourism, the following section provides a bottom-up analysis to
derive an estimate of emissions in this sector (Table 4.2.3).