Empowering those who keep Jamaica moving.
Every business runs on energy. Yours, and ours. But you can't manage what you don't understand. This is where you get to know both.
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Know Your Energy.
The essentials every business owner should understand about working with JPS. Tap any topic for the three tips that matter most.
How does your business help Jamaica move?
Pick the one that sounds like you. We'll flag the safety and savings tips that matter most for your day-to-day.
Your business is your lifeline. Keep it safe.
Electrical safety protects your people, your equipment, and your bottom line. Six habits worth building in.
Smart habits. Lower usage. More left over.
Where efficiency pays off first — and how to make sure summer doesn't quietly eat into your margins.
Everyone's feeling the heat this summer.
Especially business owners. Longer hours, harder-working equipment, warmer walk-in traffic. Follow these tips to beat the heat and keep your operation running cool.
- Set ACs to 24°C — cool enough for customers, kind to your usage
- Close doors when the AC is on. Simple. Ignored constantly.
- Clean fridge coils and AC filters monthly during summer
- Shift heavy equipment use to cooler morning or evening hours
Uptime is a two-way commitment.
Your business runs on staying open. Ours runs on keeping the grid ready. Here's how both sides prepare — because storms, heat, and the unexpected don't warn anyone in advance.
Prepare your operations.
Losses from unplanned outages hit small businesses hardest — spoiled inventory, cancelled bookings, halted service. A little preparation goes a long way.
- Know what a 4-hour, 12-hour, and 24-hour outage would cost you
- Back up point-of-sale and customer data offline or to the cloud
- Protect refrigeration with surge protectors and a temperature log
- Have a communication plan — customers, staff, suppliers
- If you rely on backup power, service it before you need it
Keeping the grid ready for you.
Reliable service takes constant work behind the scenes — inspections, upgrades, vegetation management, and 24/7 crews. Here's what we're doing so you can plan around less.
- Routine vegetation management along key business corridors
- Ongoing grid maintenance and inspection cycles
- Storm Centre updates and real-time outage reporting via MyJPS
- Priority restoration coordination during major events
- Direct commercial support channels for account-holding businesses
Want more than the essentials?
Three focused hubs, one interactive planner, and a game — each built to take you deeper on what matters.
Electrical Safety for Your Business
Risk assessment templates, code-compliant setup, incident response — the complete safety playbook for owners and staff.
Explore Safety Hub → 02 · HubEnergy Efficiency for Your Business
Equipment guides, appliance benchmarks, Time-of-Use strategies, and net billing basics — everything that lowers your usage.
Explore Efficiency Hub → 03 · HubYour Business and JPS
Getting connected, upgrading service, understanding your rate, and every account-related process explained without jargon.
Explore Account Hub →Build a plan around your business.
Answer a few questions about your operation — equipment, hours, size — and get a custom checklist for safety, savings, and outage readiness.
Start the Planner →Run the shop. Beat the outage.
A quick, fun way to learn how fuel rates, peak usage, and outages actually work — by managing a virtual business through a Jamaican day.
Play the Game →How can JPS empower your business?
Tell us what's working, what's not, and what you need from us. Two minutes of your time helps shape how we support small businesses next.
Take the Energy Check Survey →Run your energy from your phone.
Your business account in your pocket — track usage in real time, pay on your schedule, and report issues before they cost you a sale.
Track Your Usage
See consumption in real time, not just once a month.
Pay Anytime
Settle your account when it works for your business.
Set a Budget
Get alerted before usage runs past what you planned.
Report an Outage
Flag issues fast and track restoration live.