A report recently published by IRENA emphasised the role of women in renewable energy, and calculated that 32% of the workforce are women. This key report researched the women’s roles, as workers and decision-makers, in the global renewable energy market. Considering the previous knowledge gap on this matter, this report puts forward interesting findings. Through […]
The technology group Wärtsilä has started construction on a 378MW LNG-powered project in El Salvador. The power plant, the largest and most efficient in El Salvador, will be one of the first in Central America to use liquified natural gas. Energía del Pacífico, a company formed in response to the Government of El Savador’s call […]
The Swiss-based clean energy company, The meeco Group, has announced two of its solar projects, totaling 4.44 MWp, simultaneously entered into operation – one in Germany, and the other in Antigua. The projects were both commissioned in December 2018, on the same date. The Bethesda project, in Antigua, built and commissions by PV Energy, is […]
BMR Energy, a member of the Virgin Group, announced it has bought and will subsequently take over operations for a 5MW solar plant in the Cayman Islands. The company develops and operates clean energy projects in the Caribbean and in Latin America. BMR Energy also has projects in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guatemala and Jamaica. […]
The energy and water foundation acciona.org, the corporate foundation of ACCIONA, a global energy company, has brought electricity to 2.250 people in seven indigenous communities in Panama. The Luz en Casa Ngäbe-Buglé project, the foundation’s first project in Panama installs solar home systems at lower costs than alternative lighting systems. Similar projects have already been […]
The Las Pailas II Geothermal Project is set to integrate into the Costa Rican National Electric System (SEN) in six months time, after a final testing phase. The plant, located in the northwest of the country, will generate sustainable electricity from 55MW of installed capacity. Las Pailas II is the seventh plant of this type […]
A local engineer, Alexander López Savran, has used his bio-digester innovation to create a distribution network for biogas in neighboring communities in Cuba. “A new bio-digester has been designed to obtain pressure, which means that biogas can be distributed more than five kilometres away without the need for a compressor or blower,” said Mr. Savran, […]
Experts in the Costa Rican transport sector and industry predict changing tides and an increase in the use of electric vehicles in the country. Currently, only 600 out of 1.4 million private vehicles run on electricity. However, this is twice the number of electric vehicles that were on the roads in 2017. Bernal Munoz, a […]
Barbados’ Enterprise Growth Fund Limited (EGFL) has funded $15.9 million worth of energy projects through its Energy Smart Fund. Mr. Timothy Simmons, the fund’s CEO has reported substantial progress of the renewable energy sector in Barbados, in part supported by the Energy Smart fund. The EGFL funds renewable energy projects for a company, and reduces […]