Sustainable Energy & Development News
VOL.1 JUNE 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... 50% Renewable Energy By 2030 - Young Businessman Pushing For More Clean Sources While the national target for renewable energy is 20 percent of total consumption by 2030, young entrepreneur Rajiv Lurch is more ambitious and wants to help ... Read more
Energy-Efficiency Strategy Coming For The Caribbean The Caribbean is, within the next two or so years, to have an energy efficiency strategy that should serve the growth agenda of various islands. Read more Jamaica On Track For Green Funding Jamaica is on track to receive US$300,000 (J$37 million) in grant funding from the Green Climate Fund, to better equip the Climate Change Division to... Read more
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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 Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF) 2016 October 17-19, 2016 Location: Intercontinental, Miami, Florida, USA
27-06-2016 || Young Jamaicans Urged To Join Energy Revolution Young Jamaicans have been urged to join the energy revolution and pursue careers in the renewable industry. Making the call, Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Dr Andrew Wheatley, says meeting the global demand for renewable energy by 2030 could result in 24 million jobs worldwide, and Jamaica’s youth need to be part of that development. The minister, who was delivering the keynote address at the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) Schools Energy Programm ... Read more 27-06-2016 || Renewable Energy Conference At Point Lisas T&T is pursuing a domestic target of generating ten per cent of its electricity from renewable energy resources by 2021. However, in spite of excellent preconditions for renewables, clean energy solutions are still relatively rare. To promote sustainable development, the University of T&T in collaboration with the Energy Chamber of T&T will host a conference on Renewable Energy: Road Map 2021—Where are we and are we on track? tomorrow at 8:30 am. Five renowned renewable ... Read more 22-06-2016 || 15-Year Window To Benefit From Low Solar Costs At the start of this series, a month ago, you learned about the powerful and predictive tools used in power planning — cost curves (also known as experience learning curves). Had we paid attention to these when planning, we would have been aware that the cost curves for fossil-fired power is upward and, in Jamaica’s case, are presently marginally higher than most renewables. Nuclear energy is now the most costly non-renewable source, with USA’s natural gas being the least costly non-renewable. Conversely, the cost curves for renewables ... Read more 21-06-2016 ||VC Bird Airport Solar Power Plant Generates Revenue Since its commission in December last year, the three Megawatt peak (MWp) solar energy plant at the VC Bird International Airport has already generated more than US $1 million in revenue. According to Thomas Biendorf, Chief Technical Officer of the United Kingdom-based clean energy PV Energy Limited, the company which operates and maintains the facility, “In just about six months ... 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
19-06-2016 || THE ISSUE: Energy Complacency Too Risky For Region In recent weeks oil prices have been increasing. This is something that officials in Barbados and the region would have taken note of considering the breathing space the low price of fossil fuels afforded the Caribbean over the last two years. The elbow room was so significant that some individuals have voiced concern that that the more affordable hydrocarbons have caused countries like ... Read more 18-06- 2016 || USAID Caribbean Clean Energy Program Helps Green The Grid Bridgetown, Barbados -- The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Caribbean Clean Energy Program (CARCEP) is assisting Caribbean nations to become more energy efficient through policies and incentives that promote low emission growth and greater public-private sector investment in clean energy development. Read more 17-06-2016 ||Hive Energy To Develop A New PV Project In Cuba Hive Energy is set to become the first British company to net a major PV project contract in Cuba. As part of the deal, Hive Energy will develop a 50MW installation which will stand as the first utility-scale site to be developed in the country. Once completed, the project is expected to generate up to 93GWh of electricity annually. The site is slated to be finished by 2018. Cuba has plans to spend US$3.5 billion over the coming years to build its renewable-energy sector. In 2015, only 4% of Cuba’s electricity came from renewable sources, but ... Read more 16-06-2016 || Gov’T Urged: ‘Set Tone’ On Renewable Energy The Government has been urged to “set the tone” for the renewable energy sector, with one provider warning the Bahamas is “way behind the eight ball” with less than 1 per cent penetration. Guilden Gilbert, vice-president of Alternative Power Sources (APS) Bahamas, told Tribune Business this nation lagged other countries in the Caribbean on renewable energy penetration. “I would image that the penetration is still below 1 per cent; way below 1 per cent,” he said. “Jamaica seems to be leading the charge when it comes to renewables on the retail level, for instance, home owners or commercial use. Read more 14-06-2016|| Democratising The Renewables In Jamaica I have been following your columnist David Cooke’s ideas on renewable energy proliferation and policies in Jamaica and thinking of who has the experience and expertise to bring off what he suggested in his recent column. To me, the participation of both Carltons (Davis and Samuels), Edward Seaga, Cooke, Alwin Hayles, YP Seaton, Robert Levy, Brian Silvera, Byron Blake, and Earl Jarrett could be vital to a team for bringing the necessary degrees of drive, public policy formulation, institutional awareness, commercial sense, political credibility, and ... Read more 11-06-2016 || The State Of Renewable Energy And Energy Efficiency In Saint Lucia The current price of fossil fuel generated electrical energy in Saint Lucia is among the highest in the world, though not the highest in the OECS, as all the islands have a strong dependence on diesel derived electricity. These high prices have put a great deal of pressure on the government to develop and implement strategies that will result in a decrease in energy prices. Contrary to popular belief, the responsibility for reducing the high energy prices does not lie solely with the power company, LUCELEC. Read more
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09-06-2016 || Suriname Improves Governance And Strengthens Its Energy Sector With IDB Loan Project to support the development of an institutional and regulatory policy framework to enhance the nation’s energy sector and its government institutions. Suriname will increase the efficiency, transparency, sustainability and accountability of its energy sector, supported by a $70 million loan approved by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). It will be able to provide more reliable and sustainable energy ... Read more 08-06-2016 || Gov’t Moving To Divest Wigton Windfarm Mandeville, Manchester — The Government is pressing ahead with plans to partially or fully divest the profit-making Wigton wind farm in Rose Hill, south Manchester, possibly using the stock market. “Wigton is one of the more successful Government entities around, and we are looking at divestment to generate… more capital for further expansion not only in Wigton, but in other viable projects across the country,” Energy Minister Andrew Wheatley told journalists last week, following the formal commissioning of phase three (Wigton III) of the wind farm. “It is part of our mandate that the Government creates ... Read more 08-06-2016 ||Can Wind And Solar Make Us Rich? Having now understood that cheap storage is the only thing holding us back from using 100 per cent of renewable power sources, you may glean all that it means for “energising” Jamaica both electrically and wealth-wise. The single result of ensuring that there is enough storage causes the duality of cheap electricity — household prices likely under US$0.20 cents per kWh or some 60 per cent lower than our previous fossil-fuelled electrical highs; while we retain over US$100 million in the economy each and every month going forward from the elimination of imported fuels that is ... Read more 03-06-2016 || British Solar Company Lights The Way For UtilityScale Solar In Cuba London, United Kingdom - Hive Energy has become the first British company to secure a major solar project contract in Cuba. The contract to deliver the 50MW project on the caribbean island was awarded to the company at the end of May by the Union Electrica de Cuba (UNE). The solar development will be the first utility scale solar project to be built in Cuba and is expected to generate up to 93 GWh of electricity annually. The project is expected to be completed by 2018. Read more 01-06-2016 || Digicel Benefits From Sun2com Solar Energy Solution PV Energy installs sun2com systems for Caribbean mobile phone network provider Steady developments of new technologies as well as an increasing need of staying online and connected on an international level require reliable internet and mobile phone connections – even in the most remote locations. The energy supply for telecommunication stations, also referred to as Base Transceiver Stations (BTS), represents a real challenge ... Read more 01-06-2016 || Hydro Storage Cheapest By discontinuing the use of fossil fuels in Jamaica we unfortunately lose their inherent energy storage. But we can replace it. Batteries are usually our first thought. We can store it as heat that can then be used for steam-driven turbines (like in Chile) which the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) already uses in quantities, or myriad other ways, including flywheels, and compressed air to drive pistons and airline-style turbines and the like. Read more
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BE IN THE KNOW ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY, ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE 29-06-2016 |Jamaica On Track For Green Funding Jamaica is on track to receive US$300,000 (J$37 million) in grant funding from the Green Climate Fund, to better equip the Climate Change Division to carry out is functions in regard to spearheading the national effort to develop effective climate resilience and lower emissions development strategies. In its capacity as the National Designated Authorit ... Read more
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22-06-2016 || Jamaica Prepares To Tap Into Climate Change Fund Kingston, Jamaica (JIS) — Jamaica is preparing to tap into US$10.3 billion available to fund climate change adaptation and mitigation projects. The country is joining 200 other developing states in formulating viable proposals to access financing from the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Based in South Korea, the GCF was founded as a mechanism to assist ... Read more 22-06-2016 ||Adaptation Plan for Forestry Sector Nears Completion The national adaptation strategy and action plan for the forestry sector is nearing completion, as Jamaica continues the drive to boost resilience to climate change. “Work is well advanced for the forestry adaptation plan as well as the forestry sector. The forestry sector development plan is a plan that has to be revised periodically and it is now being revised with climate change considerations integrated into it,” said Albert Daley, head of ... Read more 20-06-2016|| KSAC Allocates $60 Million For Drain Cleaning The Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) will be allocating $60 million for critical drain cleaning and to enable all the divisions to take care of problems associated with the 2016 hurricane season, Kingston Mayor Angella Brown Burke said on Tuesday. The mayor told the council that she was satisfied with the preparations being made for possible eventualities during the current hurricane season. She added that the ... Read more
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15-06-2016 ||IDB Supports Water Adaptation In Jamaica’s Housing Sector Kingston, Jamaica – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved an operation to enable investments in efficient water technologies and practices in newly built housing in Jamaica. The project will promote related business opportunities and entrepreneurship in climate ... Read more 15-06-2016 || Coral Reef Tourism in Danger As Reefs Struggle To Adapt To Warming IPS – A recent UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report on world heritage sites in danger from climate change received widespread media attention after the Australian ... Read more 14-06-2016 || Sustainable Cities Course For Antigua And Barbuda St. John’s, Antigua - The Organization of American States, the Department of Environment and the GEF/Small Grants Programs is collaborating to host the Sustainable Cities Training course from June 21-24. The cities of the Americas are experiencing dramatic and accelerating changes. Significant demographic variations and technological advances ... Read more 11-06-2016 || USAID Climate Change Project Bolsters Dominica’s Resilience Roseau, Dominica – A United States Government-funded climate change project in the Eastern Caribbean helped one community avoid major flooding during last year’s passage of Tropical Storm Erika and also provided Dominican farmers with access to climate-smart ... Read more 10-06-2016 || Dominica Rattled By Earthquake Roseau, Dominica – Dominica was rattled by an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.8 on Thursday night, the Trinidad-based Seismic Research Center of the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) has announced. It said that the quake occurred at 9:45 pm (Local time) and was located 64 kilometers east of Roseau at a depth of 48 kilometers. Read more 09-06-2016|| Summit Of Caribbean States Embraces ECLAC’s Proposal For Debt Relief Havana, Cuba – The Association of Caribbean States (ACS) fully supported the debt relief initiative presented by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) which, among other measures, proposes the creation of a resilience fund ... Read more
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03-06-2016||Belize To Reduce Environmental Pollution In Emerging Tourism Sites With IDB Assistance Washington, USA -- Belize will reduce environmental pollution by improving solid waste management practices in emerging tourism destinations with support from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). A $10 million IDB loan will finance investments to ... Read more 03-06-2016 || Stop Plastic Pollution, Govt Urges Kingston, Jamaica (JIS) -- Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Daryl Vaz, is imploring Jamaicans to reuse and recycle plastics in order to reduce the impact of the material on the environment. Vaz said the use and disposal of plastic bags ... Read more 02-06-2016| Jamaica Gets Help In Climate Change Mitigation Kingston, Jamaica (JIS) – The Japan Government has earmarked approximately US$1.8 million ($220 million) through the Japan-Caribbean Climate Change Partnership (J-CCCP), to provide assistance to Jamaica in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Approximately $73 million of that sum will be provided to support on-the-ground work to ... Read more
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