TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO's EFFORTS TO MAKE ACCESSING ELECTRICITY FAIRER Trinidad and Tobago's stralegy for lowering electricity connection costs focused on finding a fair scheme to allocate costs between new and future customers. In 2006 T&TEC-Trinidad and Tobago's public. regulated electricity utility-gol complaints about the costs of connecting to electricity. The most controversial issue was the capital contribution. Where the distance of the customer was far from the network or the network was fully used and new capacity was required, extending the network would increase the overall cost.