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Sustainable Energy & Development News VOL.1 MAY 2016

THE MONTHLY REVIEW OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY & DEVELOPMENT NEWS IN THE CARIBBEAN FROM THE REGION”S LEADING INFORMATION PLATFORMS

This publication is prepared by the Caribbean Energy Information System

What’s Happening Across The Region...

Government Focused On Increasing Renewables – Wheatley Energy Minister Dr. Andrew Wheatley says his ministry is focused on increasing renewables to approximately 30 per cent of Jamaica’s total energy mix by 2030.

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UWI Net Zero Energy Building Project Will Save Jamaica Millions Engineers, climate scientists and government representatives are agreed that the country and the region could save millions in electricity bills if Read more EU Signs Agreement With St. Lucia To Assist With Infrastructure Reconstruction Following Floods Castries, St. Lucia – The European Union continues to assist St. Lucia following the heavy rains in December 2013 that caused tremendous infrastructure damage.

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Future Enrgy Forum (FEF) May 11, 2016 Paris Solar Power Southeast May 25-26, 2016 Atlanta, Georgia, Omni Atlanta Hotel CNN Center Grand Ballroom North Tower Solar...

2nd Suriname International Mining, Energy & Petroleum Conference & Exhibition (SURIMEP) June 14-16, 2016 Paramaribo, Suriname Singapore International Water Week July 10-14-2016 Singapore Funding & Implementing Energy Efficiency & Sustainability Workshop August 23-24, 2016 Novotel Sydney Central, Australia

30-05-2016 || Labour Forges A Sustainable Future For Energy Sector Under this Government, Saint Lucia has become a globally recognised pioneer and leader amongst the Small Island Developing States for its approach to sustainable development. In the final presentation by candidates at a press conference on Monday, the Representative for Dennery North, the Hon. Shawn Edward, announced one of the flagship policies of the next Labour Government, which will redefine the ... Read more 27-05-2016 || Honey Bun’s Solar Energy System A Positive Move For Growth Kingston, Jamaica –The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture, & Fisheries (MICAF) has described Honey Bun’s newly-installed solar-energy system as a positive development for growth, job creation, and competitiveness. Speaking on behalf of Minister Karl Samuda on Friday, at the official ribbon-cutting ceremony for the system at Retirement Road, Kingston, Director General in the ministry, Vivian Brown, noted ... Read more 25-05-2016 || CARICOM, OECS and GIZ To Host Regional Forum On Geothermal Energy Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 05, 2016 (SKNIS): A regional forum on geothermal energy, in partnership with the Caricom Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission and GIZ (The German Agency for International Cooperation) will be hosted by the Government of St. Kitts and Nevis at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort from May 10-12, 2016, with the purpose of creating a framework for a regional ... Read more 25-05-2016 ||How Much Renewable Energy Can JPS Absorb?

Last week, we discussed the Office of Utilities Regulation’s acceptance of the bid by Eight Rivers Energy Company to provide solar energy to the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) at a cost of 8.54 US cents per kWh via a 33.1 MW solar photovoltaic plant to be built in Paradise Park, Westmoreland. Good news, but the development begs one question: How much of this low-priced solar will the unstable and creaky JPS grid be able to accommodate in order to replace ... Read more

REPORTS Study on the Development of the Renewable Energy Market in Latin America and the Caribbean Caribbean Sustainable Energy Roadmap (C-SERMS) Phase 1 Summary and Recommendations for Policymakers Energy Security in the Caribbean : Unique Challenges Perspective Paper February 2015

DOCUMENTS National Energy Plan - Final Draft Commonwealth of Dominica

Power Systems of the Future A 21stCentury Power Partnership Thought Leadership Report

UNIVERSAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS Understanding the Transformational Challenge for Developed Countries

Millennium Development Goal 8 Taking Stock of the Global Partnership for Development

22-05-2016 || Is An Energy Crisis Brewing In The Caribbean?

The Venezuelan economy is melting down, leading to a growing humanitarian crisis. Electricity shortages and a general shortfall in investment are also putting a dent in the country’s oil and refining production. Oil output has declined slowly but steadily for more than a decade. The evaporation of the country’s financial resources has led to a rapid disappearance of influence in the region. Principle to that influence was Venezuela’s Petrocaribe program ... Read more 22-05- 2016 || Sun Rules As St Ann Housing Community Avoids JPS Bills The Old Fort Village, located in Old Fort Bay, St Ann, is leading the way in the use of alternative energy in the parish and possibly Jamaica, by operating fully on solar energy. The complex has 12 townhouses consisting of one, two and three-bedroom units all powered by the 360 solar panels which line the roofs and other areas of ... Read more 17-05-2016 ||Connolly Presses CIG To Act on Energy Policy (CNS): Government has accepted a motion presented by the opposition MLA for George Town, Winston Connolly, to consider legislating a new energy policy to meet global standards on sustainable development and climate change, but it doesn’t appear likely to happen anytime soon. Despite a passionate debate by the former government backbencher about the desperate need for Cayman to reduce its dependence on diesel, the minister with responsibility said a committee to examine an energy policy had not yet been ... Read more 15-05-2016 || JPS Donates Solar Panels To Three Public Libraries Kingston, Jamaica (JIS) – The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has donated three solar panels to the Kingston and St Andrew, St James, and Manchester parish libraries. At the official handing over ceremony held recently at the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Library, Director General of the Jamaica Library Service (JLS), Karen Barton, expressed gratitude for the items. She noted that the donation is timely as the JLS embarks on a thrust to implement energy efficiency measures in all public libraries. She indicated that the solar panels will realise a three to five per cent reduction in energy consumption. The JPS ... Read more 11-05-2016|| PM Harris and Energy Minister Discuss Country’s Geothermal Progress Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 10th, 2016 (PRESS SEC) – Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris and Minister of Energy et al., Honourable Ian Liburd, attended the U.S.-Caribbean-Central American Energy Summit in Washington, D.C. last week and discussed the country’s geothermal progress with key stakeholders.

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden Jr. chaired last week’s Energy Summit at the U.S. Department of State that convened key ... Read more 10-05-2016 || OUR Selects Preferred Renewable Energy Bidder Kingston, Jamaica – The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has selected Eight Rivers Energy Company Limited (EREC) as the preferred bidder to build, own and operate a 33.1 megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation facility at Paradise Park in Westmoreland. The OUR in a news release Tuesday said the proposed price (all-in tariff) is 8.54US cents/ kWh. This latest OUR-managed project is the most competitive renewable energy procurement project to date and is in keeping with the trend in the reduction in the price of energy from renewable sources ... Read more

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07-05-2016 || Guyana To Power Govt Buildings With Renewable Energy Guyana’s President David Granger on Saturday announced a target of ensuring that every government building is powered by renewable energy over the next four years as part of the country’s drive to eventually eliminate its addiction to fossil fuels. “I do believe the private sector will come along with us but my short-term objective is to make the government green and set the model,” he said in response to questions posed ... Read more 06-05-2016 || MOU To Support Renewable Energy And Energy Efficiency In The Caribbean Washington, United States, Friday May 6, 2016 – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the US Department of Energy (USDoE) have entered a partnership that will help provide cleaner, cheaper, and more secure sources of energy for the region. This week they signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that creates a framework for cooperation to promote programmes and activities that foster the transformation of the energy sector in ... Read more 04-05-2016 ||PM Among Regional Heads In Washington For Energy Summit Prime Minister Andrew Holness is among several regional heads of government currently in Washington DC for a two-day US Caribbean Central American Energy Summit being hosted by US Vice-President Joseph Biden at the State Department. This morning, Holness attended the launch of a report produced by the Task Force for Caribbean and Central America Energy Security which was officially announced by United States President Barack Obama when he visited ... Read more 03-05-2016 || Harris Heads Delegation To Washington Basseterre – Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris will be joining his colleagues from the Caribbean and the hemisphere at the United StatesCaribbean-Central American (US-CCA) Energy Summit in Washington DC today and tomorrow. The prime minister is accompanied by the Minister of Public Infrastructure with responsibility for Energy Ian Patches Liburd, Cabinet Secretary Josephine Huggins, and Justin Hawley, Representative at the Embassy of St Kitts and Nevis to the United States of America. The discussions at the US-CCA ... Read more 02-05-2016 || CORE Programme Grows Another 2MW (CNS Business): The Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) has sanction an expansion of Caribbean Utilities Company’s Consumer-Owned Renewable Energy (CORE) Generation Programme, which will see more residential and commercial customers who are using alternative power, such as solar and wind, to feed back another two megawatts of power to the grid. The Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) programme, which ... Read more 01-05-2016 || Turning Point For Energy Security In The Caribbean Caribbean countries have quietly started a green revolution and are now leading the way for other small island developing states in the global effort to limit the rise of global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius. While challenges remain, five months after the historic climate agreement in Paris, they remain committed to saving energy and investing in renewables. Some may argue that at a time when oil prices ... Read more

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BE IN THE KNOW ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY, ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE 31-05-2016 |Caribbean Urged To Brace For More Hurricane Activity This Year Roseau, Dominica (CMC) — A two-day Caribbean Regional Climate Outlook Forum (CariCOF) began here yesterday with the region being told to brace itself for a wetter than usual season and chances of more hurricane activity this year than in the past five years. Climatologist ... Read more

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24-05-2016 || CARICOM Negotiators Playing Major Role in Bonn Climate Change Talks Countries are now in their second week of negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) presently taking place in Bonn, Germany. Draft conclusions have already been adopted for some items under two of the subsidiary ... Read more 19-04-2016 ||An Ultimatum for the Caribbean to Pull Its Head Out of the Sand lobal Temperature Records Blown Away Again Port-of-Spain, Trinidad – The pores, on my skin, began to rise as the voices of climate activists chanting “The people got the power, tell me can you feel it,” blasted through my headphones. Images of defiant demonstrators, modern-day renegades in disguise, flashed across the screen as I watched a video of the Ende Gelände organised climate demonstration ... Read more 18-05-2016|| CDB Boosts Climate Adaptation and Capacity-building Projects Montego Bay, Jamaica – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) increased its capacity-building work in the Region in 2015, focusing on climate adaptation, renewable energy, public sanitation, environmental awareness and sustainability programmes. In this regard, financing was provided to help Haiti improve its population’s access to ... Read more

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16-05-2016 || Global Temperature Records Blown Away Again (CNS): The latest temperature figures released by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies have revealed yet another world record in high temperatures for the Earth. The global temperature for April was 1.11 degrees Celsius above the 1951-1980 average. This crushed the previous April record set in 2010 by 0.24 degrees .... Read more 15-05-2016 || St Thomas Residents to Clean Shoreline, Gully Residents of Morant Bay are expected to participate in the removal of garbage and other debris from the Bamboo River shoreline and gully on Labour Day, May 23. The clean-up exercise was selected by the St Thomas Labour Day Planning Committee as the parish ... Read more 12-05-2016 || WHO Study Points to Rising Levels of Air Pollution in Many of the World’s Poorest Cities Geneva, Switzerland — More than 80 per cent of people living in urban areas that monitor air pollution are exposed to air quality levels that exceed the World Health Organisation (WHO) limits. While all regions of the world are affected, populations in low-income cities are the ... Read more 10-05-2016 || Experts To Help Region Improve Weather Tracking And Climate Change Monitoring Bridgetown, Barbados – The world’s leading meteorological satellite training experts are meeting in Barbados this week to discuss how the Next Generation of high-resolution satellites will help countries and regions, including Caribbean Small Island Developing ... Read more 08-05-2016 || Earthquake Rocks Antigua St. John’s, Antigua – At 9:48 am on Sunday, Antigua shook. An earthquake with a magnitude 5.2 rattled the island but there were no reports of injuries or damages. The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) said that the quake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometres. It said that the earthquake was located 52 ... Read more 07-05-2016|| Why One Climate Tracker Wants The Caribbean To Go Red Port-of-Spain, Trinidad – Red! A colour customarily used to symbolise intensity, passion, assertiveness and determination. No less can be said about the climate activists dressed in red attire that descended upon one of UK’s largest coalmine in South Wales on the morning of May 3 2016. Read more

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07-05-2016||World Bank Group To Deepen Engagement With Guyana Washington – The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors has discussed a new country engagement note for Guyana for the next two years to strengthen climate resilience, improve education quality and lay the ground for private sector development. “We must ... Read more 03-05-2016 || Enviro Group Renews Calls For Law To Regulate Importation Of Plastic Products Environment lobby group, Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) has renewed its appeal for the government to introduce legislation to regulate the importation and use of plastic products, especially bottles, as ... Read more 02-05-2016| Antiguan Farmers Benefit From Climate-Smart Technology St. John’s, Antigua – Farmers and communities in Antigua and Barbuda are better equipped to withstand drought, improve food production, and enhance the country’s resilience to climate change following completion of the Antigua part of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States’ (OECS) Rallying the Region to Action on Climate Change (RRACC)... Read more

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